Exam 4: A History of Computing Devices: From Calculators to Microcomputers

In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the first architecture to use functional parallelism.

The Colossus was designed and constructed at the Post Office Research Laboratories at Dollis Hill in North ……………..in 1943 to help Bletchley Park in decoding intercepted German telegraphic messages.

……………..is a digital computer system that is controlled by a stored program that uses a microprocessor, a programmable read-only memory (ROM) and a random-access memory (RAM).

During the World war II, a young German engineer, ……………studied the application of electronic analog circuits for the guidance and control system of liquid-propellant rockets and developed a special purpose analog computer, the 'Mischgerat' and integrated it into the rocket.

………………., Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz were among mathematicians who designed and implemented calculators that were capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division included.