Chapter 1 Personal Computers
This experimental network developed by the U.S. government, scientists and others eventually became the Internet?
ARPANET
The first general-purpose commercial computer was known as the:
UNIVAC
This computer correctly predicted that Presidential candidate Eisenhower would be elected:
Univac I.
Programs such as Internet Explorer that serve as navigable windows into the Web are called:
Web browsers.
WWW means:
World Wide Web.
The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purposes are known as:
applications.
The future could bring the emergence of ________, computer chips embedded within human bodies.
biodigital technology
Supercomputers:
contain thousands of microprocessors.
In regard to a handheld device, a docking cradle allows a user to:
establish connection between the handheld device and a computer.
Computers that once occupied full rooms, but are now approximately the size of a refrigerator, are used by large organizations and known as:
mainframe computers.
A pointing device used as a peripheral to move around the screen to point and click at objects is called a:
mouse.
Computers have changed the way humans go about their day-to-day lives. Events and ideas radically change the way people work, live, and think. This dramatic change is known as a(n):
paradigm shift.
PC stands for:
personal computer.
When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her Web site, the ethical issue of ________ is at issue.
protecting intellectual property
Computers grew out of a human need to:
quantify.
What is a computer that provides software and other resources to computers over a network?
server
When multiple users sharing data and hardware resources need access to one application, a ________ is necessary.
server
Applications that are designed to do calculations, such as the expenses of a student or sales of a business, are known as:
spreadsheets.
A negative aspect of a laptop computer is:
the relatively high price and upgrade difficulties.
