History of Computers Webquest Scavenger Hunt Your Task

History of Computers Webquest Scavenger Hunt

Your Task • Complete slides 4 -14 • Find your own answers from researching the internet • Save your file as “Last name + First Name + Computer History” and send it me for grading ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 2

Some Helpful Web Sites: Encyclopedia Britannica https: //www. britannica. com/technology/computer/History-of-computing Computer Hope https: //www. computerhope. com/history/index. htm Or of course…Google!!! ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 3

How was the first home computer (1980 s) different from the computers that are in our homes now? • Type your answer here ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 4

What do these acronyms stand for? Explain what they are please… DOS- GUI- BASIC- FORTRAN- ASCII- ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 5

Match each computing pioneer with their discovery Jack Kilby The integrated circuit Tim Berners-Lee The 1 st personal computer called the Altair Charles Babbage the Difference Engine & the Analytical Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing machine Ed Roberts The World Wide Web ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 6

Please list major contributions of each company Apple IBM Microsoft ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 Xerox Intel 7

Use this webpage to learn how to use an abacus and find the answers https: //www. mathsisfun. com/numbers/abacus. html 7 ? ? ? ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 8

Put in correct timeline order Jacquard Loom Abacus Apple I gine n E l tica y Anal Turing Machine Slide Rule ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 Altair 9

Define these computer terms: Vacuum tube - Microprocessor - Transistor - Boolean - Computation - ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 10

List some computing invention successes and failures Type successes here Type failures here ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 11

Find a picture of each person and write what they invented John Atanasoff Stephen Wozniak Grace Hopper Blaise Pascal Invented? ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 12

Fill in the blanks with help from: https: //www. dummies. com/programming/electronics/the-differencebetween-analog-and-digital-electronics In digital electronics, quantities are _________. In analog electronics, quantities are _________. There’s an important distinction between counting and measuring. When you count something, you get an _______ result. When you measure something, you get an ___________ result. analog digital ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 13

Choose one person who advanced the evolution of the computer and write about them below… • Type your answer here ©Tech. Check. Lessons, 2018 14