Wednesday, October 8, 2014

True or False?

1.The first computer programmer was a women.-False
The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace and was a female. She lived in England in the middle of the 1800's. 
2. The first computer was built in 1975. -True
The first computer was built in 1910 by Henry and Charles Babbage. They were father and son.
3. Apple made the worlds first user friendly personal computer. -True
Apple was the first to make a personal user friendly computer in 1977. It was made by Steve Wozniak. 
4. Binary numbers are counted by twos. -False
The Binary system is the simplest positional number system using the numbers 0-1. Gottfried Leibniz established this in 1679. 
5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer. -False
A notebook computer is battery powered and is usually smaller than a briefcase. It was created by Alan Kay in the 1970's.
6. Computers come in only three sizes. -False
There are more than three sizes that computers come in. There are notebook, tablet, desktop and phone. 
7. All PC's use the Microsoft windows operating system. -False
You can use Linux, Chrome, Steam, Haiku and many more. There are a lot of operating systems. 
8. People with a lot of data often own their own mainframe computer. -True
A mainframe computer is very large. They are used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations.  
9. Most modern super computers are made up of clusters of computers. -True
A super computer is a particularly powerful mainframe computer. They were introduced in the 1960's.

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