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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.

Medium · Level 5 · 25 questions

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  1. Development from manual counting to programmable machine idea
  2. Direct development from vacuum tube to transistor
  3. Development from web browser to mobile app
  4. Development from printer to scanner
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  1. Pascaline was for web and Stepped Reckoner for email
  2. Pascaline related to addition subtraction and Stepped Reckoner extended to multiplication division
  3. Both were fifth generation computers
  4. Both were artificial intelligence machines
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  1. It showed the idea of controlled instructions
  2. It made the first microprocessor
  3. It created the first internet
  4. It created the first operating system
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  1. Because it had ideas like input output memory and processing
  2. Because it worked on mobile network
  3. Because it was a web browser
  4. Because it was a fifth generation robot
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  1. Difference Engine was for mathematical tables and Analytical Engine was linked with broader computing idea
  2. Difference Engine was for internet and Analytical Engine for radio
  3. Both were only printers
  4. Both were only mobile phones
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  1. Because she considered instructions that a machine could follow
  2. Because she made the first transistor
  3. Because she made the first web browser
  4. Because she made the first printer
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  1. Because it processed large data quickly using punch cards
  2. Because it made the first smartphone
  3. Because it made the first touch screen
  4. Because it made the first microprocessor
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  1. Only in brightening screen
  2. In giving data and instructions
  3. In playing sound
  4. In creating internet
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  1. Because it had both mechanical and electrical components
  2. Because it was only a web service
  3. Because it was a microprocessor chip
  4. Because it was an artificial intelligence system
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  1. ENIAC was an early electronic general purpose computer and UNIVAC was an early commercial computer
  2. ENIAC was smartphone and UNIVAC was web browser
  3. Both were abacus
  4. Both were only punch card looms
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  1. Because it was used for analysis of secret messages in Second World War
  2. Because it was the first personal laptop
  3. Because it was the modern name of abacus
  4. Because it was the first web browser
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  1. Early electronic digital computation effort
  2. First graphical web browser
  3. First smartphone operating system
  4. First microblogging platform
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  1. Because it was an early program controlled machine
  2. Because it was the first social media site
  3. Because it was the first touch screen phone
  4. Because it was the first laser printer
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  1. A program stored in memory can run
  2. A computer can run without electricity
  3. Abacus can run internet
  4. Printer can become CPU
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  1. Stored program computing
  2. Only abacus calculation
  3. First social network
  4. Laser printing history
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  1. Programming and error correction were difficult
  2. Every task was easy through mobile apps
  3. All machines understood natural language
  4. Computers were very small and cheap
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  1. Computers became smaller and more reliable
  2. Computers became abacus
  3. Computers stopped needing electricity
  4. Computers worked only on paper
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  1. Many components could be placed on a chip, improving size and speed
  2. Computers became completely mechanical
  3. An abacus was installed in every computer
  4. Punch cards became the main electronic memory
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  1. Spread of personal computers
  2. Return of vacuum tube rooms
  3. Compulsory use of abacus
  4. Weaving through punch cards
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  1. Intelligent behavior and knowledge based solutions
  2. Only sorting punch cards
  3. Heating vacuum tubes
  4. Operating slide rule
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  1. Because the major use areas of both languages were different
  2. Because both were hardware chips
  3. Because both were abacus beads
  4. Because both were wheels of punch card machine
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  1. Making machine instructions from high level language
  2. Making monitor into CPU
  3. Making vacuum tube into paper
  4. Making mouse into abacus
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  1. It influenced portable and multiuser system ideas
  2. It made the first abacus
  3. It ended punch cards so no software remained
  4. It made the first microprocessor
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  1. Open source software movement
  2. Vacuum tube trade
  3. Punch card weaving movement
  4. Abacus tax collection
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  1. Communication and resource sharing between networks
  2. Counting abacus beads
  3. Repairing vacuum tubes
  4. Color of laser printer

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