lab 1.4


1. Question - IBM produced the first hard disk drive. Find a page on an official IBM web sitedescribing this disk. When was 
it made, what was it called, and how muchstorage space did it offer?

it was made in 1888 known as Computing Tabulating Recording Company. 
Had 2000 bits of storage per square root.




2. Question - Who is often called the “Father of Computing” and when did he live?

Charles Babbage 1791-1871




3. Question - What was the “Analytical Engine”?

A calculating machine or the first universal digital computer.




4. Question - Was the Analytical Engine designed to run on electricity?

it was not designed for electricity it was steam powered.




5. Question - Who was Ada Lovelace, and how is she related to the Father of Computing?

Life long friend of Charles Babbage. Was the founder of scientific computing. 




6. Question - Who was Ada Lovelace’s father?

Ada never met her father (who died in Greece in 1823) and was raised by her mother, Lady Byron. 
Her life was an apotheosis of struggle between emotion and reason, subjectivism and objectivism, 
poetics and mathematics, ill health and bursts of energy.




7. Question - What computing “first” is Ada Lovelace known for?

 Ada Lovelace is best known as the first computer programmer.




8. Question - The ENIAC is often called the first general-purpose computer, though some
question this distinction. In kilograms, how much did ENIAC weigh?

27215.5422 kg. (30 tons)




9. Question - What was ENIAC designed to be used for?

Was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States.




10. Question - In what year was the construction of the ENIAC completed?

ENIAC was introduced to the public in February 1946 and was used until October 1955.




11. Question - Some claim that other fully programmable, electronic computers were produced
before ENIAC. Find at least one example, the year of its production, and who
was responsible for its production.

query "ENIAC" for information on the ENIAC answer(1941, German Z3 designed by Konrad Zuse)