Computers - Weeks 1 - 7 - Crossword Labs

4. Information that could specifically identify you: Three letters.
6. A person who operated a mainframe. She was called this!
7. What the station master taught Thomas Edison after he saved his son’s life.
8. The college dropout took a class which gave him the idea of a computer company. What unusual class was this?
12. A first working model of an invention meant to demonstrate. It’s not perfect.
13. It means ‘to be concealed’ and is a feature on a web browser to avoid being tracked.
16. What the earliest computer was called before we called it a computer. It filled a room!
17. The main circuit board inside a computer on which is the CPU, Hard Drive, and RAM.
20. Another word for tiny bits of data that flow through the Internet till they get to their destination.
22. Thomas Edison’s ‘Voice Tube’ was called this.
23. Data about a person that might include a retina scan or facial geometry. Definitely PII!
24. First name of the inventor of the World Wide Web
25. The internal storage device in a computer.
28. The part of the Web often not accessible to us because they are password protected.
29. The second word of RAM

1. Any external device that provides input and output for the computer.
2. Last name of the cofounder of Apple computers.
3. The central ‘processing’ unit of a computer.
5. Sound was recorded on paraffin-coated paper and reproduced the sound when played back. These ‘grooves’ are called this. (See Edison handout.)
9. What the Internet was called when it was part of the Defense Department Advanced Research project.
10. In addition to the mouse, Doug Engelbart demonstrated this new way to link documents.
11. A competitor to AMD that manufactures microprocessors.
14. You save a document on Google Drive, you save it to here. (It’s not really ‘fluffy.’)
15. To create a ‘grid’ in a Google document, you click on ‘INSERT’ and select this option.
18. The keyboard command for searching a word on a website, or any document.
19. If a project’s goal is huge, risky, and ambitious companies call this a ____________ project.
20. One of Steve Jobs’ investments had more to do with movies than hardware.
21. What kind of software would be Linux or Windows? Not Application software, it’s_________ software.
26. When there is a two-way flow of information between devices, you call this experience this. (See Engelbart handout.)
27. The tiny rectangle of hardware that ‘knows’ which circuits to use, and does math calculations.