Task 1 http://www.johnston.k12.ia.us/technologyservices/instructionaltechnology/HistoryWebQ/calcdevmach.html
What was Blaise Pascal’s calculating machine named?
What did Blaise Pascal use that made this machine unique?
Charles Babbage’s machines used hand fed cards to operate the machines. What kind of cards were they?
What woman helped create mechanisms, which contributed to computer development?
Dr. Herman Hollerith’s calculating machine helped the US government with what task?
Task 2 http://www.johnston.k12.ia.us/technologyservices/instructionaltechnology/HistoryWebQ/develcomp.html
What device changed calculating machines into computers? When did this occur?
Which machine combined mechanical parts with electrical parts?
Which computer was awarded the title, “the first all electronic digital computer”?
Where was the first all electronic, digital computer created?
Which company created the first popular home computer and began marketing to schools? Task 3
Site 1: John Vincent Atanasoff – Fact Archive http://www.angelfire.com/ma/kilenm/2k03ppl.html
What year did Dr. John V. Atanasoff conceive the idea of the Atanasoff Berry Computer?
Who was Dr. Atanasoff’s graduate student who helped him build the computer?
What year did they build the prototype of the computer (prototype is an example)?
What 2 key ideas did he use in his computer?
On January 15, 1941, what paper announced the ABC as “an electrical computing machine”?
Who visited Dr. Atanasoff in 1940 to see the ABC?
What was this visitor interested in and what did he later construct?
Site 2: Inventors of the Modern Computer: About.com-Inventors https://www.thoughtco.com/john-atanasoff-and-clifford-berry-inventors-4078350
Atanasoff-Berry Computer: How much grant money did Dr. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry receive to build a larger computer?
List details of the size of the final product (size, weight, vacuum tubes, wire length, etc.).
How fast could the ABC calculate and compare it to today’s calculation speed?
Site 3: John Atanasoff: World Biography article https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/john-v-atanasoff#3404707524
SperryRand-Honeywell Suit: What were the results of the 1973 court decision?