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1. The earlier computers,

which were massive in size,

were based on vacuum tubes.

2. Early computing machines,

like the ENIAC, were actually

meant to assist the armed

forces.

3. The printers in pre-1950s

were punch cards.

4. An improvement on theENIAC, which pioneered 'stored

program', was made possible

with the help of the

mathematician J ohn von

Neumann.

5. Before the 1950s, computerswere mostly owned by

universities and research

labs.

6. The B-programming language

was developed by Ken Thompson.

7. Famous people, associatedwith the ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC

computers are Eckert &

Mauchly.

8. The 1st commercially

produced and sold computer

(1951) was UNIVAC.

9. IBM was provided software

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for PCs by Microsoft.

10. Time-sharing, teletyping,

were associated with mainframe

computers.

11. The transformation from

heavy computers to PCs was

made possible using

microprocessors.

12. The first microprocessor

was developed in 1971 byIntel.

13. The term 'micro'

(extremely small) denotes

10-6m.

14. The Harvard student, who

chose to write computerprograms and dropped studies

was Bill Gates.

15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs

roughly 40 million

transistors.

16. Mark-1, Apple-1, andcollossus were initial desktop

computers.

17. Binary digits are briefed

as bit.

18. A collection of bits is

called byte.

19. C++, is a computer

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language.

20. The process of eliminating

programming faults is called

debugging.

21. Starting up on operating

system is called booting.

22. A program used to browse

the web is called browser.

23. An error in software

designing which can even causea computer to crash is called

bug.

24. Click and double-click are

achieved using the mouse.

25. J ava, C, ForTran, Pascal

and BASIC are computerprogramming languages.

26. The device which sends

computer data using a phone

line is called MODEM.

27. 'Worm' and 'virus' are

actually programs.28. A 'file' is a unit of

information.

29. A megabyte has

106(million) bytes.

30. A small, single-site

network is called LAN.

31. A processor that collects

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several data and sends them

over a single line is called

bridge.

32. 'Nano' stands for one

billionth part.

33. The number of bit patterns

using an n-bit code is 2n.

34. The part of a computer

that works with the

data/programs is called CPU.35. To convert a binary number

to a decimal, we have to

express it in power of 2.

36. www stands for world wide

web.

37. Mathematics employed incomputers is called Boolean

algebra.

38. A collection of 8 bits is

called byte.

39. The first home computer

(1977), which was sold inmillions of units was Apple

II.

40. 'PARAM' is a

supercomputer.

41. A website containing

periodic posts is called blog.

42. While cutting and pasting,

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the cutitem is temporarily

stored in the clipboard.

43. http stands for hyper text

transfer protocol.

44. The unwanted or

non-requested emails are

called "spam".

45. A computer framed to give

various network services is

calledserver.

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