Who built the world's first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?
Claude Shannon
Konrard Zues
George Stibits
Howard H. Aiken
Correct Answer :
C. George Stibits
Related Questions
Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?
System Software
Application Software
Utilities
None of the above
Which of the following memories must be refreshed many times per second?
Static RAM
Dynamic RAM
EPROM
ROM
COBOL is widely used in application s
Commercial
Scientific
Space
Mathematical
The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is
1.40 MB
1.44 GB
1.40 GB
1.44 MB
Which of the following is not a micro computer?
Laptop PCs
Tablet PCs
Desktop PCs
None of above
Which electronic component was made out of semiconductor material?
Vacuum tubes
Transistors
Ics
All of above
Snowbol is an/a________
Operating system
HLL
Software
Search engine
Which of the following can store information in the form of microscopic pits on metal disks.
Laser disks
Tape cassettes
RAM cartridge
Punched cards
The report card and merit list forms the
Output data
Data processing
Central Processing
Input data
A name applied by Intel corp. to high speed MOS technology is called
HDLC
LAP
HMOS
SDLC
Instruction in computer languages consists of
OPCODE
OPERAND
Both of above
None of above
The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
ASCII
EBCDIC
BCD
All of above
FORTRAN is
File Translation
Format Translation
Formula Translation
Floppy Translation
The term ________ designates equipment that might be added to a computer system to Enhance its functionality.
digital device
system add-on
disk pack
peripheral device
A characteristic of card systems is:
Slowness in processing data
Using cards as records of transactions
Needing a larger DP staff
All of the above
What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?
Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers
Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers
Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many programs concurrently
Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs as fast as possible.
The digital computer was developed primarily in
USSR
Japan
USA
UK
Instruction in computer languages consists of
OPCODE
OPERAND
Both of above
None of above
Which of the following is not an output device?
Scanner
Printer
Flat Screen
Touch Screen
Which part of the computer is directly involved in executing the instructions of the computer program?
The scanner
The main storage
The secondary storage
The processor
A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a resident package
CPU
Memory
Buffer
ALU
Who is the inventor of ABC Computer?
John v. Atanasoff
Clifford Berry
Both of above
None of above
The qualitative or quantitative attribute of a variable or set of variables is termed as
data
information
both of above
none of above
The contribution of Konrad Zuse was long ignored because
He made the computers secretly
His computers were very complicated and it took time for the people to recognize its power
Of political reasons. He was German.
All of the above
VGA is
Video Graphics Array
Visual Graphics Array
Volatile Graphics Array
Video Graphics Adapter
One computer that is not considered a portable is
Minicomputer
Laptop computer
Notebook computer
All of above
A system is
an integration of different units so as to achieve an objective
input unit
input and output unit
input, output and storage units
WAN is a most used abbreviation in Networking, what is its full form?
WAP Area Network
Wide Area Network
Wide Array of Network
Wireless Access Network
What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?
Pixel
Reverse video
Touch screen
Cursor
A computer cannot 'boot' if it does not have the
Compiler
Loader
Operating System
Assembler