Tuesday, April 24, 2007

1. What does DVD stand for?
DVD doesnt stand for anything it only replaces CD's.
2. What is a dingbat?
Dingbat's are special characters you can use to decorate a document.For example stars,arrows,and ect.
3. What is a handshake?
A handshake is two modems speakers determining how they will exchange information.
4. What is a
home page?
A homepage is a welcome screen in teh world wide web its an introductory screen.
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
You cannot hold little squares at the edges and the corners of a selected graphic on your screen.
6. What was
ENIAC?
Eniac was a product used in the World WarII the military needed it to develop firing tables for its artillery.
7. What contribution did
Ada Byron make to computing?
She made a machine to compose complex music, to produce graphics, and would be used for both practical and scientific use and she did.
8. What kind of
wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?
They used the microprofessor the most sophisticated chip whose transistors can execute hundreds of millions of instructions per second.
9. What do they call the
suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computerchips?

10. What does
modem stand for anyway? (Search the site)

11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry.
Use this link to answer all parts of question 11:
http://Whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213816,00.html
What is a bit?How many bits in a byte?How many nibbles in a byte?
A bit is the smalles unit of data in a computer.
12. The ARPANET 's development began in 1966. It was an experiment to connect universities to share information.
What do we call this today?
I think its call MIT Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers
13. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the timeline only)
In November 1990.
14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.What was the first document posted?
15. When were floppy disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks)

16. How many
megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
17. What do the letters
CD-ROM stand for?
18. Name
three computer peripherals.
19. What does
GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?
20. What is an advantage of the
Dvorak keyboard?
21. What is a
computer virus?
22. How did
Marcian Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.23. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?

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