Wednesday, October 8, 2014

True or False

1. The first computer programmer was a women: true
Ada Lovelace is referred to as the first computer programmer and she was a mathematician. 1815-1852 lived in England
2. The first computer was built in 1975: false
The first computer was built in 1910 by Henry and Charles Babbage, Charles was Henry's son
3. Apple made the world's first user friendly personal computer: true
Apple 2 was first user friendly computer built by Steve Wozniak
4. Binary numbers are counted by two's: false
Binary numbers are 1's and 0's, started in 1679 by Gottfried Leibniz; is the simplest positional number system
5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer: true
Basic purpose and make up are the same: portable, small
6. Computers come in only three sizes; desktop, notebook, tablet: false
Come in four sizes: desktop, notebook/laptop, tablet, phone
7. All PC's use the Microsoft Windows operating system: false
Unix, OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Eclipse
8. People with a lot of data often own their own mainframe computer: false
Mainframe computers are used by corporate and government organizations, really big, store and process bulk data
9. Most modern supercomputers are made up of clusters of computers: true
Supercomputers can process data faster than mainframe computers, use a lot of power

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