Computer History | Understanding Computers | Computer Madness |
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They tied knots in rope and they carved marks on clay.
Name 2 ways people used numbers in ancient times?
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The equipment that can be seen and touched.
What is hardware?
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2
How many conditions can a light switch be in?
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The first PC.
What did Charles Babbage invent?
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Programmers
Who writes programs?
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Hard drives and CD/DVD
What are 2 examples of external storage?
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John von Neumann
Who came up with the idea for Binary code?
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Read only Memory
What does ROM stand for?
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A hard drive
What holds more memory a CD or a Hard drive?
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It began as the Tabulating Machine Company.
How did the IBM company begin?
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The brains of the computer.
What is the CPU referred as?
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Instructions that tell the computer exactly what actions it should perform.
What is a program?
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It was a product they needed more desperately than the car.
Why did the computer change more rapidly than the car?
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A package of instructions that tell the computer what to do.
What is Software?
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0 and 1
The on and off switch represent what numbers to the computer?
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