Quiz for task gb

1. Explain how the computer is unlike all other machines in history.

    

    

2. In the USA, automatic computers were originally developed for what purpose?

    

    

3. What was the definition of the word "computer" before the time of World War II?

    

    

4. What is the fundamental concept of the modern computer, which was an idea developed by Charles Babbage over 150 years ago?

    

    

5. Explain the advantage of using the binary system rather than the decimal system in digital computers.

    

    

6. What advantages did the electronic vacuum tube have over the electromechanical relay?

    

    

7. What pioneering concept was expressed in the landmark report by John von Neumann?

    

    

8. Explain what a challenge it was to build a machine with 18,000 vacuum tubes.

    

    

9. What do we call the modern-day equivalents of the computing machines of 1950?