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Chapter Profile
Features of Fifth Generation Computer
Will use artificial intelligence.
Improved size, cost, speed and performance.
New versions of GUI operating systems are developed.
Recap
Early people tied knots in rope and carved marks on clay to keep the records.
ABACUS was the first calculating aid invented 3000 years ago in China.
Blaise pascal invented the calculating machine called the Pascaline.
Step Reckoner, the first calculator was invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Analytical Engine, the first ever working model of a mechanical computer, was
invented by Charles Babbage, who is known as ‘the Father of Computers’.
Lady Ada Lovelace is the first computer programmer.
Mark-I was the first electro-mechanical computer.
Exercise
A. Tick ( ) the correct option.
1. Identify the first calculating device that was invented around 3000 years ago.
a. Pascaline b. Abacus
c. Mark I d. UNIVAC
2. Who is known as the ‘father of computers’?
a. Charles Babbage b. Herman Hollerith
c. Blaise Pascal d. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
3. What technology was introduced in the third generation of computers?
a. Transistors b. Integrated Circuits (IC)
c. Vacuum Tubes d. Microprocessors
4. In which year did Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine become part of IBM?
a. 1890 b. 1924
c. 1940 d. 1946
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