Influential Mainframer Trivia: Mainframe History Mainframe History Enter the name you wish to see displayed on the Leaderboards. Email address is only to match on the Global Leaderboards and is not used for anything else. Which company ultimately acquired the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation? IBM Remington Rand Burroughs Honeywell Which medium was the UNIVAC I designed to use as its primary mass-storage and data-input/output technology? Punch cards Magnetic tape Paper tape Hard disk drives Why is UNIVAC's role in the 1952 U.S. presidential election remembered today? It correctly forecast a decisive Eisenhower victory that many observers initially doubted. It counted every vote cast nationwide in real time. It was the first computer used by a government agency. It accurately predicted the winner before any votes were counted. Which organization famously used a UNIVAC computer to predict the outcome of the 1952 U.S. presidential election? The Pentagon The U.S. Census Bureau CBS News IBM In 1951, Mauchly and Eckert delivered the UNIVAC I—the first commercially produced computer in the United States. What did the acronym UNIVAC stand for? Universal Automatic Computer Universal Numerical Information Computer Unified Numerical Integrated Automatic Computer Universal Network Information Analyzer Computer Which feature distinguished ENIAC from many earlier calculating machines? It used magnetic disk storage. It was fully transistorized. It was electronic rather than primarily electromechanical. It used integrated circuits. What does the acronym ENIAC stand for? Electronic Numerical Information and Calculator Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Electronic Network Integrator and Computer Electronic Numerical Interpreter and Calculator At which institution was ENIAC developed? Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Pennsylvania Princeton University ENIAC was originally designed primarily to perform calculations for which purpose? Weather forecasting Census tabulation Banking transactions Military artillery firing tables John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are known for helping develop which of the following computers? ENIAC IBM 701 Whirlwind Harvard Mark I Your score is Pos.NameScoreDuration 1AB100 %51 seconds2Admin20 %2 minutes 16 seconds
