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Instructions: Write the appropriate
answer for the following questions.
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1. These are the most important
category of computer systems for both
business people and consumers.
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2. It describes a category of extremely
powerful computer specifically designed for
scientific, engineering, and business
applications requiring extremely high speeds
for massive numeric computations.
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3. Are large, fast, and powerful
computer systems.
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4. He is a French mathematician, invented
what is believed to be the first mechanical
adding machine in 1642.
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5. It was the first electronic digital
computer.
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6. It is the generic name given to all input,
output, and secondary storage devices that
are part of a computer system but are not
part of the CPU.
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7-8. Give the two basic types of
semiconductor memory.
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9. What do you call the smallest element of
data?
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Instructions: Write T if the statement is
correct. For statements that are
incorrect, write the correct answer.
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10. During the development, iPhone was
code-named “Purple”.
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11. Mainframes are also widely used as
superservers for the large client/server
networks and high-volume Internet Web
sites of large companies.
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12. Joseph Jacquard was a Nobel Prize
laureate in physics in 2000 for his
invention of the integrated circuit in
1958 while working at Texas Instruments
(TI).
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13. Mainframe systems first became
popular as minicomputers for scientific
research, instrumentation systems,
engineering analysis, and industrial
process monitoring and control.
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14. ROM (Read-only memory) is a
volatile memory.
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15. Magnetic tape cartridges have
replaced tape reels in many applications
and can hold more than 200 megabytes.
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1. Microcomputer
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2. Supercomputer
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3. Mainframe systems
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4. Blaise Pascal
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5. ENIAC (Electronic
Numerical Integrator and
Computer)
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6. Peripherals
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7-8. random-access memory
(RAM) and read-only memory
(ROM)
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9. Bit
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10. Purple 2
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11. T
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12. Jack Kilby
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13. Midrange systems
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14. RAM (Random Access
Memory)
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15. T
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