1. TRUE or FALSE? The first programmable machine was a mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage.
2. TRUE or FALSE? Ada Byron is generally acknowledged as the world's first programmer, due to her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
3. TRUE or FALSE? An electromagnetic relay is a mechanical switch that can be used to control the flow of electricity through a wire.
4. TRUE or FALSE? Vacuum tubes, as they have no moving parts, enable the switching of electrical signals at speeds far exceeding those of relays.
5. TRUE or FALSE? Although they were large and expensive by today's standards, early computers such as the MARK I and ENIAC were comparable in performance (memory capacity and processing speed) to modern desktop computers.
6. TRUE or FALSE? Because transistors were smaller and produced less heat than vacuum tubes, they allowed for the design of smaller and faster computers.
7. TRUE or FALSE? A microprocessor is a special-purpose computer that is used to control scientific machinery.
8. TRUE or FALSE? Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that can be manufactured on a computer chip doubles every 12 to 18 months.
9. TRUE or FALSE? The first personal computer was the IBM PC, which first hit the market in 1980.
10. TRUE or FALSE? Many Web servers improve performance by utilizing parallel processing, in which multiple processors run simultaneously to handle page requests.