Computer Short Questions

1. Who is known as the father of the computer? Answer: Charles Babbage

2. What was the first programmable general-purpose electronic computer? Answer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

3. Who is considered the first computer programmer? Answer: Ada Lovelace

4. What does UNIVAC stand for? Answer: Universal Automatic Computer

5. What was the main component used in first-generation computers? Answer: Vacuum tubes

6. What replaced vacuum tubes in second-generation computers? Answer: Transistors

7. In which generation were integrated circuits (ICs) introduced? Answer: Third generation

8. Which generation of computers introduced microprocessors? Answer: Fourth generation

9. What is the name of the first commercially available computer? Answer: UNIVAC I

10. When was the ENIAC developed? Answer: 1945

11. Who invented the punched card system for data processing? Answer: Herman Hollerith

12. What does IBM stand for? Answer: International Business Machines

13. What was the primary language used in early computer programming? Answer: Assembly language

14. Which company developed the first microprocessor? Answer: Intel

15. Who developed the concept of a stored-program computer? Answer: John von Neumann