1) The first type of stogage used in an electronic digital computer was a
 2) Who was the French mathematician who invented the first practical calculat-     ing machine?
 3) The three chief items a businessman looks for after installing a data pro-      cessing system are
 4) Analog computers are more widely used in which application?
 5) Doctors and hospitals are aided in gathering facts about diseases by using      computers and a process known as
 6) True or False: In Magnetic Ink Character Recognition applications, any type     of black ink may be used for reading operations.
 7) The process of representing the functioning of a system or process by a         symbolic analogous representation of it is known as
 8) An operation conducted on equipment that is remote from the CPU is called
 9) True or False:  Modern electronic computers operate so rapidly that they        are capable of solving all problems.
10) The field of technology involved in the theory and comparative study of the     control and intracommunications in machines and organic processes is 
11) Which of the following games would be the most difficult to program for         computer play?
12) A computer is unable to
13) Linear Programming is
14) The use of digital computers in the design and production of circuit pack-      ages and new computers is called
15) The use of analytic methods adopted from mathematics for solving opera-         tional problems is called
16) True or False:   Today, low cost microcomputers are being used rather widely    in homes by personal computer users.
17) Real time systems
18) The process of changing information from one language to another is called
19) Batch processing is characterized by
20) Which of te following is an example of a digital computer?
21) A machine having both analog and digital computer characteristics is a
22) A microcomputer is a
23) The portion of a computer in which arithmetic and logical operations are        performed is called a
24) A  RAM is
25) The heart of the electronic data processing system is the
26) A magnetic tape transport is used
27) Auxiliary or secondary storage is utilized in many computer systems 
28) A digital computer is characterized by
29) Paper tape has holes punched in it
30) A magnetic disk is divided into a series of concentric circles called
31) Computer architecture is known as
32) An example of two input/output devices is
33) A system where the peripheral equipment is under the direct control of the      computer is called
34) When compared to punched cards, punched paper tape 
35) True or False:  Photoelectric paper tape readers read punched paper tape at     a rate somewhat faster than possible by mechanical tape readers.
36) One of the latest types of monolithic memory is 
37) Another name for Central Processing Unit (CPU) is
38) In most digital computers,  a no-op instruction causes what to happen?
39) True or False:  A fault is a condition that causes a component, a computer,     or a peripheral device to not perfrom to its design specifications.
40) The output device used to produce voice is called
41) The card reader
42) A single magnetic core can store a single
43) The most standard size reel of magnetic tape contains
44) The name of a device used for machine recognition by identification of their    shapes is a
45) The sprocket holes in paper tape are used to
46) True or False:  Paper tape has proven to be completely impractical for use      as an input-output medium since it tears easily and is very expensive.
47) A microcomputer memory that is not user programmable is called
48) The part of a computer instruction that designates the operation to be          performed is commonly called the
49) A set of characters which have one computer addressable location and are        treated as one unit is known as a
50) Software instructions or data that are stored in a fixed way is called
51) True or False:  The CPU is that portion of a computer system which contains     the arithmetic, logical, and control circuits, and I/O interface.
52) A device used for transferring information into a computer is called
53) The computer console can be used
54) Which of the following types of storage units are considered to be random       access (or direct access) storage devices?
55) True or False:  A common way of performing subtraction in a digital computer     is to complement the subtrahend and add it to the minuend.
56) How practical is a storage device with a storage capacity of a trillion bits
57) A device that reads special printed characters on checks is called a
58) Which of the following is not an output device?
59) To read information into the storage of a digital computer is to
60) A floppy disk is
61) A process which the computer cannot perform is called
62) A carry from the most significant digit place to the least significant digit    place is known as
63) The number of characters, bytes, or bits in a computer word is called
64) The process of returning a magnetic tape to the beginning of the preceding      record is called
65) Computer hardware mainteance is often called
66) Which type of computer storage is classified as internal storage?
67) Information is recorded on magnetic tape by:
68) True or False:  A "bus" is a device used in computer systems to carry elec-     trical current.
69) Which type of storage device has the fastest access time?
70) Which of the following devices is used only for output?
71) Computer instructions can be stored
72) A magnetic disk storage unit may be classified as
73) The fastest device for getting data into the computer is a
74) First generation computers used
75) A device used to erase information from magnetic tape is called a
76) True or False:  In most computer systems, paper cards can be punched faster     than they can be read.
77) Punched tape is usually made of
78) An emulator is
79) A printer that uses a matrix of dots to form an image of the character being    printed is called a
80) True or False:  Duplexing is the use of duplicate computers, peripheral         equipment, etc, so that in case one component fails, another will be ready      to run the system.
81) A storgae device whose information cannot be erased during the course of        computation is called
82) The stored program
83) A computer memory utilizing properties of materials near absolute  zero in      temperature is known as
84) Internal storage is synonomous with
85) The name of the analog computer comes from a word meaning
86) The place where cards are stored in a card reader and card punch is called      the
87) A device used to temporarily hold information being transmitted between com-      puter storage and peripheral devices is known as a
88) A failure in the operation of the hardware of a computer is called
89) Access time is the time needed to take information from storage to
90) An overflow indication in a computer is a condition which indicates
91) The decimal system uses a base of
92) A synonym for base (in a notation system) is called
93) In the binary numbering system, the radix is 
94) Most digital computers store data and programs internally by using
95) A numeration system that uses only two numerals, 0 and 1, to express all       numbers is called
96) The sum of 1111 (base 2) and 1000 (base 2) is
97) The ten's complement of 289 is
98) A number obtained by subtracting each digit from a number containing all        nines is called a
99) A number of the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers and i is equal       to the square root of -1 is called a
100) The product of 326 (base 8) and 35 (base 8) is