1. IBM produceed the first hard disk drve in 1956. It was called the 305 RAMAc and it offered 5MB of storage space. http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/firsts/n1956.html

2.Who is often called the "Father of COmputing" and when did he live? Charles Babbage. 1791-1871 http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

3.What was the "Analytical Engine"? It was the first attempt to the digital computer which consisted of four components the store ( memory), the mill ( computational unit), the input section( punched card reader), and the output section ( punched and printed output). http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~colesr/computer/babbage.htm

4.Was the Analytical Engine designed to run on electricity? The engine was completely mechanical. http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~colesr/computer/babbage.htm

5.Who was Ada Lovelace, and how is she relates to the "Father of Computing"? She met Charles Babbage at a party, she then translated the Menabrea which was about his new development. Thereafter she suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This was known as the first “computer program”. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm 

6.Who was Ada Lovelace's father? Lord Byron was Ada Lovelace's father.http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm

7.What computing "first" is Ada Lovelace known for? She suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This was known as the first “computer program”. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm

8.THe ENIAC is often called the first general-purpose computer, though some question theis distinction. In kiligrams, how much did ENIAC weigh? The ENIAC weighs 27215.544 kilograms. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ENIAC

9.What was ENIAC designed to be used for? It was the first all-electronic computer designed to be turning - complete, capable of being reprogrammed by rewiring to solve a full range of computing problem. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ENIAC

10.IN what year was the construction of the ENIAC completed? Final assembly in the fall of 1945. http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/96summary/

11.Some claim that other fully prgrammable, electronic computers were produced before ENIAC. Find at least one example, the year of it's production, and who was responsible for its production. Atanasoff Berry Computer is the name applied to an experimental machine for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, developed in 1938 by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Atanasoff%20Berry%20Computer