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Question 1: In 1965, ________ produced the LOCI-2, a 10-digit transistorized desktop calculator that used a Nixie tube display and could compute logarithms.
Digital Equipment CorporationWang LaboratoriesMinicomputerHewlett-Packard

Question 2: During World War II, the British at ________ (40 miles north of London) achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications.
BombeUltraEnigma machineBletchley Park

Question 3: Prior uses of machine readable media had been for control (________ such as piano rolls or looms), not data.
AutomatonRobotHydraulicsAl-Jazari

Question 4: Mechanical calculators, like the base-ten addiator, the comptometer, the Monroe, the ________ and the Addo-X remained in use until the 1970s.
Curt HerzstarkArithmometerBuchenwald concentration campCurta calculator

Question 5: The first was the German work of ________.
Z4 (computer)Z3 (computer)Konrad ZuseComputer

Question 6:
Which of the following titles did History of computing hardware have?
The Computer
Complex Computer
Computable real function
Computer Bismarck

Question 7: From 1955 onwards transistors replaced ________ in computer designs,[69] giving rise to the "second generation" of computers.
Hot cathodeVacuum tubeDiodeX-ray

Question 8: Leibniz also described the ________,[14] a central ingredient of all modern computers.
DecimalBinary numeral systemDuodecimalHexadecimal

Question 9: IBM developed punch card technology into a powerful tool for business data-processing and produced an extensive line of ________.
ComputerPunched cardUnit record equipmentTabulating machine

Question 10: [9] Slide rules were used by generations of engineers and other mathematically inclined professional workers, until the invention of the ________.
Scientific calculatorCalculatorProgrammable calculatorPersonal computer
















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