Computer Knowledge Quiz
#1
They’re Older Than You Think!
1. This person is considered the father
of the computer.
2. Which came first, analog or digital
computers?
3. Computers played a part in WWII, true
or false?
4. In 1954, the IBM 650 was
released. What did it cost?
5. The first disk storage unit had how
much storage?
6. He is considered the father of the
supercomputer.
7. This computer is considered to be the
first personal computer.
8. How many bytes make up a kilobyte?
9. Apple I & II, TRS-80 and
Commodore Pet were introduced in what year?
10. Atari released their 400 and 800
models in this year.
11. Who is considered to be the inventor
of the home computer?
12. What does LAN for?
13. This company introduced the first commercial
desktop computer.
14. What does DOS stand for?
15. These 2 co-founded Microsoft.
16. HTTP is short for what?
17. Before there was the internet we had
BBS’s. What were they?
18. This company released what was considered
to be the first laptop.
19. What do RAM and ROM stand for?
20. Can you name the 3 guys that
co-founded Apple?
Answers
below
1. Charles Babbage. Early 19th century.
2. Analog. Digital computers came along in the early
1950’s.
3. True. They were used to break codes.
4. $500,000.00. $4.39 million in 2014 bucks.
5. 5 megabytes. It cost $10,000.00 then.
6. Seymour Cray.
7. Altair 8800.
8. 1000 or 1024 depending on who you
talk to.
9. 1976/1977.
10. 1979.
11. Steve Jobs.
12. Local Area Network.
13. The Programma 101 by Olivetti in
1965.
14. Disk Operating System.
15. Paul Allen and Bill Gates.
16. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
17. Bulletin Board Systems. You had to have a password and or know the
sys-op to get on.
18. Gavilan Computer Corp released the
Gavilan SC, released in 1983.
19. Random Access Memory and Read Only
Memory.
20. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald
Wayne on April 1, 1976.
Credit must
be given to Wikipedia and my brain
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