BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A machine to decrypt enemy messages that were scrambled.
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A basic calculator that could add and subtract.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The prototype model of his anti-Enigma “bombe", named simply Victory, was installed in the spring of 1940. His bombes turned Bletchley Park into a codebreaking factory. As early as 1943 Turing’s machines were cracking a staggering total of 84, 000 Enigma messages each month-two messages every minute.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alan Turing helped the British government pioneer the technology to decrypt Nazi Germany’s secret communications during World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Universal Turing Machine In 1936, Turing had invented a hypothetical computing device that came to be known as the ‘universal Turing machine’. After the Second World War ended, he continued his research in this area, building on his earlier work and incorporating all he’d learnt during the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Enigma was a cipher device used by Nazi Germany’s military command to encode strategic messages before and during World War II.