Question: Where was the Ferranti Mark 1 sent to after it was developed?
Answer: University of Manchester

Question: When was the LEO 1 computer first operational?
Answer: April 1951

Question: When was the bipolar transistor created?
Answer: 1947.

Question: When did transistors start replacing vacuum tubes in computers?
Answer: 1955

Question: At the University of Manchester, who oversaw the building of a computer using transistors instead of valves?
Answer: Tom Kilburn

Question: The first transistorised computer was operational in what year?
Answer: 1953

Question: What did the machine use to generate its clock waveforms?
Answer: valves

Question: Who built the Harwell CADET?
Answer: electronics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell

Question: In what year was the Harwell CADET built?
Answer: 1955

Question: The integrated circuit of a computer was the idea of whom?
Answer: Geoffrey W.A. Dummer

Question: Where did Geoffrey W.A. Dummer work at?
Answer: Royal Radar Establishment of the Ministry of Defence

Question: Where created the first practical integrated circuits?
Answer: Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Question: Where did Jack Kilby work at when he created the first IC?
Answer: Texas Instruments

Question: When was the first functional IC demonstrated?
Answer: 12 September 1958.

Question: What was Kilby's IC made of?
Answer: germanium

Question: Noyce's IC was made up of what material?
Answer: silicon

Question: What was the name of the first single-chip microprocessor?
Answer: Intel 4004

Question: Who created the Intel 4004 microprocessor?
Answer: Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor

Question: Where did Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor work at?
Answer: Intel.

Question: Computing resources that are created in cell phones are called what?
Answer: smartphones

Question: How many tablets were sold in 2Q 2013?
Answer: 237 million devices

Question: Billions of instructions per second are called what in computer terms?
Answer: (gigaflops)

Question: When a computer goes back and repeats instructions of a program over until an internal condition is met is called what?
Answer: the flow of control

Question: What allows a computer to perform repetitive tasks without human intervening?
Answer: the flow of control

Question: Which computer is the Harvard architecture modeled after?
Answer: Harvard Mark I computer

Question: A computer that stores its program in memory and kept separate from the data is called what?
Answer: the Harvard architecture

Question: A computer's assembly language is known as what?
Answer: basic instruction can be given a short name that is indicative of its function

Question: Programs that convert assembly language into machine language are called what?
Answer: an assembler.

Question: Computer programs that are long lists of numbers are called what?
Answer: machine language

Question: Programming languages are translated into machine code by what?
Answer: a compiler or an assembler

Question: Programming languages are translated at run time by what?
Answer: an interpreter

Question: An ARM architecture computer can be found in what?
Answer: a PDA or a hand-held videogame

Question: Assembly language that is translated into machine language is done by what type of computer?
Answer: a compiler

Question: An example of a 4GL is what?
Answer: SQL

Question: What is the pro of 4GL over a 3G language?
Answer: provides ways to obtain information without requiring the direct help of a programmer

Question: Another name for errors in programs are called what?
Answer: "bugs

Question: Bugs are usually the fault of whom or what?
Answer: programmer error or an oversight made in the program's design

Question: Who was the developer of the first compier?
Answer: Admiral Grace Hopper

Question: Who first coined the term "bugs"?
Answer: Admiral Grace Hopper

Question: What type of creature shorted a relay of Grace Hopper's computer?
Answer: moth

Question: What type of computer of Grace Hopper's was shorted by a moth?
Answer: Harvard Mark II

Question: When was Grace Hopper's Hardvard Mark II shorted by a moth?
Answer: September 1947

Question: The ALU of a computer stands for what?
Answer: arithmetic logic

Question: Input and output devices are known as what term?
Answer: I/O

Question: Besides the ALU, input and output devices, what are the other two main components of a computer?
Answer: the control unit, the memory

Question: A circuit in a computer part represents what?
Answer: a bit (binary digit) of information

Question: In positive logic representation a "1" represents when a circuit is what?
Answer: on

Question: In positive logic representation a "0" represents when a circuit is what?
Answer: off

Question: What are other names for a control unit for a computer?
Answer: a control system or central controller)

Question: Reading and interpreting from a control unit is called doing what?
Answer: (decodes

Question: A special memory cell of a CPU is called what?
Answer: a register

Question: A register of a CPU keeps track of what?
Answer: which location in memory the next instruction is to be read from

Question: What is a component that all CPUs have?
Answer: the program counter

Question: In what part can the program counter be changed by calculations?
Answer: the ALU

Question: Instructions that change the program counter are called what?
Answer: "jumps"

Question: Loops are defined as what?
Answer: instructions that are repeated by the computer)

Question: In some CPU designs there is tinier computer called what?
Answer: microsequencer

Question: A microsequencer can be found in what other computer component?
Answer: CPU

Question: The CPU is an abbreviation for what?
Answer: central processing unit

Question: What 3 parts make up the CPU?
Answer: The control unit, ALU, and registers

Question: CPUs that are constructed on a single integrated circuit are called what?
Answer: a microprocessor

Question: Since when have CPUs been constructed with a microprocessor?
Answer: mid-1970s

Question: Some trigonometry functions are what?
Answer: sine, cosine,

Question: The term for whole numbers is what?
Answer: (integers

Question: Boolean logic consists of what?
Answer: AND, OR, XOR, and NOT

Question: Computers that have multiple ALUs are called what?
Answer: Superscalar

Question: How many numbers can a cell of a computer's memory hold?
Answer: a single number

Question: What is the responsibility of giving significance to what the memory sees as nothing but numbers?
Answer: the software's

Question: A group of 8 bits is called what?
Answer: a byte

Question: How many numbers can a byte represent?
Answer: 256 different numbers

Question: What is the range of the numbers that a byte can represent?
Answer: 0 to 255 or −128 to +127

Question: What part of the computer has memory cells called registers?
Answer: The CPU

Question: What is the typical range of registers for a CPU?
Answer: two and one hundred registers

Question: What type of memory can a CPU only read from?
Answer: ROM

Question: What type of memory can a CPU read and write from?
Answer: RAM

Question: What type of memory is always kept and kept the same?
Answer: ROM

Question: A progam inside the ROM of a PC is called what?
Answer: the BIOS

Question: Software stored in ROM is called what usually?
Answer: firmware,

Question: RAM cache memory is slower than what?
Answer: registers

Question: Devices that give input or output to a computer are called what?
Answer: peripherals

Question: A mouse is what type of peripheral device?
Answer: input

Question: A printer is what type of peripheral device?
Answer: output

Question: Hard disk drives are what type of peripheral device?
Answer: input and output

Question: A keyboard is what type of peripheral device?
Answer: input