FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does ABC mean
A
American Broadcasting Company
B
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
C
Activity-based costing
D
Anna-Bailey Computer
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. Limited by the technology of the day, and execution, the device has remained somewhat obscure. The ABC’s priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable, nor Turing-complete.

Detailed explanation-2: -(Atanasoff-Berry Computer) The first electronic digital computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Atanasoff Berry Computer, later named the ABC, was built at Iowa State University from 1939-1942 by physics professor Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ABC computer was the first electronic digital computing device. It was designed with a specific purpose, to solve systems of simultaneous up to 29 linear equations.

Detailed explanation-5: -World’s first electronic digital computer Clifford Berry with Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Photo courtesy Iowa State University Library/Special Collections Department.) The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the world’s first electronic digital computer.

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