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Computer History
This category includes questions and answers about the history of the computer. Ask questions about the first computer and major developments in computing.
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What do you understand the term import to mean?
Import means to bring anything into something else. Goods into the country are called imports. Information into a computer hard drive is called an import. Data from a file into another file is called an import.
What was the first mass-produced calculator?
The first mass-produced electronic calculator was the IBM 604. It was plugboard programmable with a program of 40 steps that could be upgraded to 60 steps. The program had to complete in the time it took a punch card to move from the read station to the punch station.
MR is a management review interview.
In this interviewer try to test person's organisational behaviour and how he reacts to different situations in projects. Basically it is a test of attitude you can say.
Generally these interviews are taken by managers and they try to figure out where exactly the person fits in the organisation.
in the year 1936 konrad zuse invented the z1 computer. it was the first freely programmable computer, but it was electromechanical not electronic
What language is this - Aenean nonummy?
I would need a little more to go on, but it looks like nonsense. "Aenean" can mean "of Aeneas," a Trojan hero in Greco-Roman mythology. "Nonummy" is derived from the Latin phrase "non numquam," which means "not never, "sometimes," or "occasionally."
VLSI chips straddle the third generation and fourth generation computers.
They were used to make some third generation computers, but the development VLSI levels of integration permitted enough transistors to make a complete simple CPU in one integrated circuit chip, creating the first microprocessors (e.g. Intel 4004, Intel 8008) used to build fourth generation computers.
The Altair was the first personal computer Who developed it?
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But actually there were others before it, one was the Radio & Electronics magazine Mark-8. Then before that was the Kenbak. etc.
1KB (kilobyte is smaller than 1MB (megabyte)
1MB = 1024KB
so
1KB = 0.0009765625 MB
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