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GKToday -Computer Gk Series
Q. Who invented Microprocessor?
A. Ted Hoff
Q. Software that can manipulate or destroy data or programs in a computer is known as
A. Virus
Q. Binary Code’ used in computers makes use of which numbers
A. 0 & 1
Q. One kilobyte is equal to
A. 1024 bytes
Q. Which computer company introduced mouse for the first time
A. Apple Corporation
Q. Who developed the World Wide Web first
A. Timothy Berners Lee
Q. The first large scale, general purpose digital computer
A. ENIAC
Q. What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?
A. PASCAL.
Q. What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
A. The Macintosh.
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Cloud computing works on a client-server basis, using web browser protocols. The cloud provides server-based applications and all data services to the user, with output displayed on the client device. If the user wishes to create a document using a word processor, for example, the cloud provides a suitable application running on the server which displays work done by the user on the client web browser display. Memory allocated to the client system’s web browser is used to make the application data appear on the client system display, but all computations and changes are recorded by the server, and final results including files created or altered are permanently stored on the cloud servers. Performance of the cloud application is dependent upon the network access, speed and reliability as well as the processing speed of the client device.
History of Computers
ENIAC( Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.]
ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory. When ENIAC was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a “Giant Brain”. It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched. This mathematical power, coupled with general-purpose programmability, excited scientists and industrialists. The inventors promoted the spread of these new ideas by teaching a series of lectures on computer architecture.
The ENIAC’s design and construction was financed by the United States Army during World War II. The construction contract was signed on June 5, 1943, and work on the computer began in secret by the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering starting the following month under the code name “Project PX”. The completed machine was announced to the public the evening of February 14, 1946 and formally dedicated the next day at the University of Pennsylvania, having cost almost $500,000 (nearly $6 million in 2010, adjusted for inflation). It was formally accepted by the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in July 1946. ENIAC was shut down on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment and a memory upgrade, and was transferred to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1947. There, on July 29, 1947, it was turned on and was in continuous operation until 11:45 p.m. on October 2, 1955.
ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania.[9] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).
| Computer History Year/Enter |
Computer History Inventors/Inventions |
Computer History Description of Event |
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1936 |
Konrad Zuse – Z1 Computer | First freely programmable computer. |
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1942 |
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ABC Computer |
Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. |
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1944 |
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper Harvard Mark I Computer |
The Harvard Mark 1 computer. |
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1946 |
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer |
20,000 vacuum tubes later… |
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1948 |
Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube |
Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. |
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1947/48 |
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley The Transistor |
No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers. |
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1951 |
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly UNIVAC Computer |
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. |
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1953 |
International Business Machines IBM 701 EDPM Computer |
IBM enters into ‘The History of Computers‘. |
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1954 |
John Backus & IBM FORTRAN Computer Programming Language |
The first successful high level programming language. |
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1955 |
Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric ERMA and MICR |
The first bank industry computer – also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. |
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1958 |
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce The Integrated Circuit |
Otherwise known as ‘The Chip’ |
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1962 |
Steve Russell & MIT Spacewar Computer Game |
The first computer game invented. |
|
1964 |
Douglas Engelbart Computer Mouse & Windows |
Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end. |
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1969 |
ARPAnet | The original Internet. |
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1970 |
Intel 1103 Computer Memory | The world’s first available dynamic RAM chip. |
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1971 |
Faggin, Hoff & Mazor Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor |
The first microprocessor. |
|
1971 |
Alan Shugart &IBM The “Floppy” Disk |
Nicknamed the “Floppy” for its flexibility. |
|
1973 |
Robert Metcalfe & Xerox The Ethernet Computer Networking |
Networking. |
|
1974/75 |
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers | The first consumer computers. |
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1976/77 |
Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers | More first consumer computers. |
|
1978 |
Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software |
Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner. |
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1979 |
Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby WordStar Software |
Word Processors. |
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1981 |
IBM The IBM PC – Home Computer |
From an “Acorn” grows a personal computer revolution |
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1981 |
Microsoft MS-DOS Computer Operating System |
From “Quick And Dirty” comes the operating system of the century. |
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1983 |
Apple Lisa Computer | The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. |
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1984 |
Apple Macintosh Computer | The more affordable home computer with a GUI. |
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1985 |
Microsoft Windows | Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple. |
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Intelligence runs in the family
Smart performance is a trait of every member of the 2nd generation Intel Core processor family. That’s because every 2nd generation Intel Core processor features remarkably intelligent technologies. Examples?
- Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 automatically dials up the processor clock speed when demanding tasks require additional power, then dials down to save energy whenever possible.¹
- Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) and other innovative Intel® technologies enable four-way (or eight-way) processing that makes multi-tasking between business applications quick and effortless.²
And smart performance is literally on display in 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors, as they offer stunning visual performance due to built-in visuals . There’s no need for dedicated graphics cards (or the added cost and power requirements that come with them).³
Greater performance enables seamless security
Security shouldn’t get in the way of user productivity. And that’s another reason why the exceptional performance of 2nd generation Intel Core processors is so important. It enables security applications and protocols to run efficiently and unobtrusively in the background. In many cases, users won’t even know their PCs are actively being secured. And that’s the way it should be.

New PCs for Your New Compute Environment
IT is changing at warp speed, and PCs must keep pace. That’s why 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors bring smart performance and new capabilities to secure mobility, online rich media, and business operations optimization.
Computer Knowledge Question and Answer Series Continues
1. The port number used by SMTP is:
25
2. A packet filter is a type of
Firewall
3. Which among the following utilities can detect a bad sector?
CHKDSK and SCANDISK
4. In 100BASE-T, ‘T’ stands for:
Twisted pair
5. A head crash is said to occur when the read-write head of a hard disk drive:
Touches the magnetic media
6. Category 5 cable includes —twisted pairs in a single cable jacket.
4
7. The port number used by the HTTP protocol is
80
8. In PowerPoint presentations, individual pages are called:
Slides
9. _________ is a powder used in laser printers to form the images on a paper.
Toner
10. Worms and Trojan Horses are examples of:
Malware
11. ___________ Printers work by selectively heating regions of special heat-sensitive paper.
Thermal
12.The ISI mark is given by:
BIS
13. The laser printer was invented at:
Xerox
14. A flaw in a system whereby the output is unexpectedly dependent on the sequence or timing of other events is called a:
Race condition
15. A 56k modem can transfer data at up to bits per second over the phone line.
56000
16. The original implementation of the C programming language was standardized by :
ANSI
17. ________Is a signaling method that handles a relatively wide range of frequencies.
Broadband
18. Power-on-self-test is built into the:
BIOS
19. PowerPoint can embed content from other applications through:
OLE
20. The latest release of Microsoft Windows is called:
Vista
21. GRUB is an:
Boot loader
22. __________Is a family of programmable interrupt controller chips.
8259
23.card allows television signals to be received by a computer.
TV tuner
24. ________Is an IEEE 1394 implementation.
Fire Wire
25 ‘Windows protection error’ messages may result from:
Damage to the system registry
26 Sound Blaster line of audio cards were made by :
Creative Technology Ltd.
27 Indiscriminate sending of unsolicited bulk messages is known as :
Spamming.
28. The ‘blue screen of death’ may occur due to:
All the above
29. FAT manages files in contiguous groups of sectors called:
Clusters
30. The utility which can be used to clean the windows registry is:
regedit
Computer Awareness-Computer Knowledge Question Series
e) All are true
CAD and CADD
Computer-aided design (CAD), also known as computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer.
CADD software, or environments, provide the user with input-tools for the purpose of streamlining design processes; drafting, documentation, and manufacturing processes. CADD output is often in the form of electronic files for print or machining operations. The development of CADD-based software is in direct correlation with the processes it seeks to economize; industry-based software (construction, manufacturing, etc.) typically uses vector-based (linear) environments whereas graphic-based software utilizes raster-based (pixelated) environments.
Virtual Memory,ROM and RAM
Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory is a feature of an operating system that enables a process to use a memory (RAM) address space that is independent of other processes running in the same system, and use a space that is larger than the actual amount of RAM present, temporarily relegating some contents from RAM to a disk, with little or no overhead.
ROM
ROM – Read-only memory: On ROM, data is prerecorded for read only which can not be removed. ROM is nonvolatile and it retains its contents regardless the computer is on or off. Most personal computers contain a small amount of ROM that stores critical programs such as the program that boots the computer. In addition, ROMs are used in calculators and peripheral devices such as laser printers, whose fonts are often stored in ROMs. There are a few variations of ROM such as programmable read-only memory(PROM), which is manufactured as blank chips on which data can be written with a special device called a PROM programmer.
RAM
RAM – Random access memory: whose contents can be accessed (read, write and remove) in any order. This is in contrast to sequential memory devices such as magnetic tapes, discs and drums, in which the mechanical movement of the storage medium forces the computer to access data in a fixed order. RAM is usually used for primary storage in computers to hold active information such as data and programs. Common forms of RAM are: SRAM (Static RAM) and DRAM (Dynamic RAM).
Cloud Computing The New Technology in Computing
Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid.
Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from consumers,who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure”in the cloud” that supports them. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources



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