12.3: Electronic Computers
Across
- 2. Connects all the computer's components
- 4. Random variations
- 6. directs the computer to perform the basic functions required for operation
- 12. Data that uses 0 and 1
- 14. the collection of programs that contain instructions for displaying words and images for the user to see
- 15. America's first mass-produced computer
- 16. a single piece of software that directs the computer to do a certain task
- 17. A set of binary numbers
- 18. Device that processes information using electric circuits
- 19. The brain of the computer
- 20. Can have any possible data within a specified range
- 21. It allows the CPU to store programs and information
Down
- 1. Data that uses powers of sixteen
- 3. Can have only certain values within a range
- 5. stored information and instructions that direct the computer to perform certain tasks
- 7. Simple counting devices
- 8. A single chip containing a complete CPU
- 9. Pieces of information
- 10. Actual physical components of the computer
- 11. includes all the different programs that direct the computer to perform specific tasks for the user
- 13. First generation electronic computer