Computing History
Across
- 2. International Business Machine
- 7. Many early computers used this as the primary method for input
- 8. Element used in computer processors
- 12. ___ was done by plugging hundreds of wires into plugboards
- 14. First-generation computer used these for logic circuitry based a thermionic valve
- 15. First computer programmer
- 18. Graphical User Interface
- 19. First company to design a GUI
- 20. Originally a job title now evolved into a device we use daily
Down
- 1. An automatic computer designed to tabulate polynomial functions
- 3. A semi-conductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power
- 4. world's largest computer chip manufacturer today
- 5. General Purpose computer proposed by Charles Babbage
- 6. Considered to be the "father" of computing
- 9. first fully transistor-powered, commercially available computer
- 10. Computer named after Steve Jobs' daughter meaning Local Integrated Software Architecture
- 11. one of the largest electro-mechanical computers completed in 1944 by IBM
- 13. According to ___ ___, anything that went wrong with a computer is considered a computer bug.
- 16. First microcomputer
- 17. First truly general-purpose electronic computer