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CSC 105 midterm Exam Practice Questions and Answers Updated 2024 First mechanical computer and when - Answer-John Napier (Napier Bone) in 1617 4 basic processes of computers - Answer-Receive input Process information Produce output Store information WWII - Answer-The period in human history ...

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CSC 105 midterm Exam Practice
Questions and Answers Updated 2024

First mechanical computer and when - Answer✔✔-John Napier (Napier Bone) in 1617


4 basic processes of computers - Answer✔✔-Receive input


Process information


Produce output


Store information


WWII - Answer✔✔-The period in human history when electronic computers were first

developed


Memory - Answer✔✔-Temporary


Storage - Answer✔✔-Permanent


Modern computers two mainstreams of evolution - Answer✔✔-Mechanization of arithmetic

(calculating machines - hardware)


Concept of stored programs (process control - software)


The abacus - Answer✔✔-Unknown origin


Used by the Chinese 3 to 4 thousand years ago

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Pascal's Adder (Blaise Pascal) - Answer✔✔-1642


1st mechanized adding machine


gears and wheels


add and subtract, calculate taxes


inaccurate


Liebniz Calculator (Gottfried WIlhelm von Liebniz) - Answer✔✔-similar to Pascal's design


add, subtract, multiply divide


more reliable and accurate


still inaccurate


he also invented calculus


Jacquard's Loom (Joseph Marie Jacquard) - Answer✔✔-1800


weaving loom


metal punch cards to position threads for the weaving process


within the decade, 11,000 used in France


may have been 1st case of unemployment caused by automation


Herman Hollerith - Answer✔✔-1860-1929


machine that used electric charges to read into off of punch cards


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