True or False?

1. The first computer programmer was a women.

False

Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. She was a mathematician, lived during the middle of the 1800s, lived in England, and was in fact- a women.

2. The first computer was built in 1975.

True

The first computer was built in 1910, by Henry Babbage and his son Charles Babbage.

3. Apple made the world's first user friendly personal computer.

True

The "Apple II" computer was built by Steve Wozniak.

4. Binary numbers are counted by two's.

False

Binary numbers are a combination of zeroes and ones. Binary is the simplest positional number system.

5. A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer.

True

Laptop and notebook computers are very similar, they are both meant to be portable, fully functioning computers.

6. Computers come in only three sizes, desktop, notebook, and tablet.

False

Computers can come in four sizes; desktop, notebook, tablet, and mobile smartphones.

7. All PC's use the Microsoft Window's operating system.

False

Other operating systems you can run on a PC include: Linux, Chrome, Steam, Haiku, etc

8. People with a lot of data often own their own mainframe computer.

True

Mainframe computers are usually run by large companies, or government organizations. These computers file through mass data such as a census, or customer statistics.

9. Most modern supercomputers are made up of clusters of computers.

True

Super computers are made with many computers tied together. Adding more computers will make the super computer even stronger.