1. The first computer programmer is a woman.
True
Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer, she was from England, and was a Mathematician. She lived in London in the 1800's
2. The first computer was built in 1975.
False
The first computer was built in 1910, and was built by Henry and Charles Babbage. Henry the father started it, and Charles his son finished it.
3. Apple made the first user-friendly personal computer.
True
Apple 2 was the first user-friendly personal computer, and was created in 1977-1978. Created by Steve Wozniak.
4. Binary numbers are counted by twos.
False
A simple positional number system. It was invented by Gottfried Leibniz.
5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer.
True
They are relatively similar. A notebook computer is a fully functioning computer that is mobile. The notebook is usually a smaller size, and smaller size ROM.
6. Computers come only three sizes: desktop, notebook, and tablet.
False
There are four sizes of computers: Desktop, laptop, notebook, and tablet.
7. All PCs use the Microsoft windows operation system.
False
Other operation systems: Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, and Wind River.
8. People with a lot of data often own their own mainframe computers.
False
used by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing.
8. Most modern super computers are made up of clusters of computers.
True
An extremely large computer, that does a lot of calculations at the same time.
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