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History and Generations of Computers.

This topic from Basic Computer Knowledge introduces Class 12 General Knowledge students to the historical development of computers and the major stages known as computer generations. Students learn how early machines using vacuum tubes evolved through transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors, and modern intelligent technologies. It explains the changing size, speed, storage, reliability, programming methods, and applications of computers, helping learners connect key technological advances with the way computers are used in education, business, science, communication, and everyday life.

Hard · Level 5 · 25 questions

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  1. Alan Turing
  2. Charles Babbage
  3. Blaise Pascal
  4. Herman Hollerith
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  1. Stored program concept
  2. Punch card weaving
  3. Only mechanical calculation
  4. Natural language robotics
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  1. Limitation in data movement between processor and memory
  2. Color difference between monitor and printer
  3. Shape of mouse and keyboard
  4. Length of abacus and slide rule
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  1. Separate paths for instructions and data can help fast and controlled work
  2. It reads only punch cards
  3. It enlarges vacuum tubes
  4. It colors web pages
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  1. Controlling a machine through predefined instructions
  2. Creating Web from microprocessor
  3. Running abacus from monitor
  4. Creating Internet from printer
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  1. Medium for giving input and instructions
  2. Filling colors on screen
  3. Playing sound
  4. Power generation
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  1. Its main purpose was preparing mathematical tables
  2. It ran web browsers
  3. It made artificial intelligence decisions
  4. It created mobile apps
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  1. It imagined doing different tasks through different instructions
  2. It could only add
  3. It only read census cards
  4. It only sent radio signals
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  1. Relation with tabulating and data processing business
  2. Relation with first smartphone making
  3. Relation with first web browser
  4. Relation with first microprocessor design
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  1. It was an early program controlled machine, not a microprocessor based personal laptop
  2. It was the first social media app
  3. It was the first web browser
  4. It was the first color printer
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  1. ABC was a special electronic digital effort and ENIAC related to general purpose electronic computing
  2. Both were modern smartphones
  3. ABC was a web browser and ENIAC was Linux kernel
  4. Both were only abacuses
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  1. It was linked with code analysis in the Second World War
  2. It was the first home computer
  3. It was the first personal tablet
  4. It was the first web search engine
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  1. It was an early vacuum tube based electronic computer but not a modern personal computer
  2. It was a fifth generation AI system
  3. It was the first Linux computer
  4. It was the first web server
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  1. It gave a practical clue for running a program stored in memory
  2. It created the first web page
  3. It created the first mobile processor
  4. It created punch card loom
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  1. It performed real useful computation based on instructions stored in memory
  2. It made the first smartphone
  3. It made the first punch card loom
  4. It made the first AI chatbot
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  1. Clues mention early commercial computer and government data processing
  2. Clue mentions natural language AI
  3. Clue mentions first microprocessor
  4. Clue mentions first abacus
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  1. It also improved reliability energy efficiency and heat control
  2. It made computers run without electricity
  3. It made all computers web browsers
  4. It made machine language natural language
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  1. Because bringing many components on one chip improved speed and reliability
  2. Because it was another name for punch card
  3. Because it was the first web page
  4. Because it was only a wooden wheel
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  1. Both are linked with development of small powerful chip based computers
  2. Both are types of vacuum tubes
  3. Both are colors of punch cards
  4. Both are abacus beads
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  1. Because its clues also come from goals like AI knowledge based systems and natural language
  2. Because it has no technological clue
  3. Because it is same as first generation
  4. Because it runs only with punch cards
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  1. Punch cards
  2. Touch screen
  3. Cloud form
  4. Wireless mouse
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  1. It was easier than machine language but still a low level language
  2. It was natural language AI
  3. It was web browser language
  4. It was direct human language without translation
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  1. Based on their major use areas
  2. Based on monitor color
  3. Based on punch card size
  4. Based on mouse type
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  1. It translates between high level language and machine instructions
  2. It connects vacuum tube and abacus
  3. It connects Web and printer
  4. It connects mouse and chair
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  1. The term ‘bug’ for a computer error was already in use; a real moth was recorded in the incident associated with Hopper
  2. Grace Hopper coined the term ‘bug’ and defined it as a microprocessor
  3. The term ‘bug’ originated from punch-card looms and means web server
  4. In that incident, the computer error was caused only by software code, with no physical object involved

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