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09-15-2005, 12:53 PM
Computer Scavenger Hunt
Name _Alex Vaughan___
1. What does DVD stand for?
Digital Video Disk
2. What is a dingbat?
A silly empty-headed person
3. What is a handshake?
Grasping and shaking a person's hand or the connecting of two computers
4. What is a home page?
A homepage is the first screen, called a "page," that you see when you view a site.
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
A name you would go by on the internet
6. What was ENIAC?
World's first electronic, large scale, general-purpose computer, built by Mauchly and Eckert, and activated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. ENIAC recreated on a modern computer chip. See an explanation of ENIAC on a Chip by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. The ENIAC is a 30 ton machine that measured 50 x 30 feet. It contained 19,000 vacuum tubes, 6000 switches, and could add 5,000 numbers in a second, a remarkable accomplishment at the time. A reprogrammable machine, the ENIAC performed initial calculations for the H-bomb. It was also used to prepare artillery shell trajectory tables and perform other military and scientific calculations. Since there was no software to reprogram the computer, people had to rewire it to get it to perform different functions. The human programmers had to read wiring diagrams and know what each switch did. J. Presper Eckert, Jr. and John W. Mauchly drew on Alansoff's work to create the ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
She is the founder of scientific computing
8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?
300-millimeter wafers
9. What does modem stand for?
modulator-demodulator
10. What is a bit?
Bits are tiny particles of computer matter that make up everything in your computer
11. How many bits in a byte?
8
How many nibbles in a byte?
4
12. In what year was the first World Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee?
Lee wrote the original Web software himself in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991
13. When were floppy disks introduced?
1973
14. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
800
15. Douglas Engelbart was a computer visionary of the 1960’s. What did he invent that you find handy?
The mouse
16. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?
The middle two letters in "CD-ROM" stand for "read only"
17. What does GUI mean?
Graphic user interface
18. Apple Computer’s G4 is a supercomputer because its operations can be measured in gigaflops. What is a gigaflop?
A Gigaflop is a billion (the giga part) floating point operations (the flop part) per second. ...
19. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?
Name _Alex Vaughan___
1. What does DVD stand for?
Digital Video Disk
2. What is a dingbat?
A silly empty-headed person
3. What is a handshake?
Grasping and shaking a person's hand or the connecting of two computers
4. What is a home page?
A homepage is the first screen, called a "page," that you see when you view a site.
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
A name you would go by on the internet
6. What was ENIAC?
World's first electronic, large scale, general-purpose computer, built by Mauchly and Eckert, and activated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. ENIAC recreated on a modern computer chip. See an explanation of ENIAC on a Chip by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. The ENIAC is a 30 ton machine that measured 50 x 30 feet. It contained 19,000 vacuum tubes, 6000 switches, and could add 5,000 numbers in a second, a remarkable accomplishment at the time. A reprogrammable machine, the ENIAC performed initial calculations for the H-bomb. It was also used to prepare artillery shell trajectory tables and perform other military and scientific calculations. Since there was no software to reprogram the computer, people had to rewire it to get it to perform different functions. The human programmers had to read wiring diagrams and know what each switch did. J. Presper Eckert, Jr. and John W. Mauchly drew on Alansoff's work to create the ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
She is the founder of scientific computing
8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?
300-millimeter wafers
9. What does modem stand for?
modulator-demodulator
10. What is a bit?
Bits are tiny particles of computer matter that make up everything in your computer
11. How many bits in a byte?
8
How many nibbles in a byte?
4
12. In what year was the first World Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee?
Lee wrote the original Web software himself in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991
13. When were floppy disks introduced?
1973
14. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
800
15. Douglas Engelbart was a computer visionary of the 1960’s. What did he invent that you find handy?
The mouse
16. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?
The middle two letters in "CD-ROM" stand for "read only"
17. What does GUI mean?
Graphic user interface
18. Apple Computer’s G4 is a supercomputer because its operations can be measured in gigaflops. What is a gigaflop?
A Gigaflop is a billion (the giga part) floating point operations (the flop part) per second. ...
19. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?