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D. Short answer type questions.
1. How did people calculate or count in the ancient times?
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2. In which generation of computers were microprocessors used?
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3. What is ENIAC?
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E. Long answer type questions.
1. Write the differences between first and second generation of computers.
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2. Write any two features of third generation computers.
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21 st #Critical Thinking
F. Competency-based/Application-based question. Century
Skills #Technology Literacy
Shreya found an old computer at her grandparents’ house. Her grandfather
mentioned it was his first personal computer (PC), which he bought in the
early 1980s. Which generation of computers does it belong to?
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In the lab Century #Information Literacy
Skills
Open Word 2016, type the name of different calculating devices and their inventors
and save the file as ‘Evolution of Computers’.
Calculating Device Inventor
Analytical Engine Charles Babbage
Leibniz Step Reckoner Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Tabulating Machine Herman Hollerith
Pascaline Adding Machine Blaise Pascal
Teacher's Corner
1. Demonstrate the ABACUS and its uses to the students.
2. Discuss the great breakthroughs which took place in each generation of computers.
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