Wednesday, October 8, 2014

True or False

1. The First computer programmer was a woman. Truuuuuu
The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician in London

2. The first computer was built in 1975. False
The first computer was built in 1910 by Henry and Charles Babbage

3. Apple made the worlds first user-friendly PC. Truuuuuu
Steve Wozniak had built the Apple II in 1978

4. Binary numbers are counted by twos. False
Binary only has two numbers: 0 and 1

5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer. True
Notebooks are relatively similar to laptops, but they are made smaller than laptops

6. Computers come in only three sizes Desktop, Notebook, and Tablet. False
There are many sizes including: Desktops, Laptops, Notebooks, Tablets, and Mobile Phones

7. All PC's use the Microsoft Windows OS. False
No, there are many Operating Systems including: Ubuntu, Raspbian, Chrome OS, and Unix

8. People with a lot of data often own their own mainframe computers. False
Mainframe computers are large database computers usually only used by big corporations and the government

9. Most modern supercomputers are made up of clusters of computers. Truuuuuu
A extremely large computer that can do millions of calculations at the same time in nanoseconds

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