Important facts about basic computer knowledge

There are some important facts about basic computer knowledge which are generally asked in competitive exams and quiz competitions as well. In today's world computer has become an essential part of our modus operandi so that we have to make ourselves literate in computers knowing its basic facts and all. There are some facts given below.

Important facts related to computer :

1. The father of computers is Charles Babbage
2. John Van Newman has made the most outstanding contribution to the development of computers.
3. The modern computer was invented in 1946.
4. Great revolutions in computers came in 1960.
5. The total number of computers in the world is the largest in the United States and their respective positions are Japan, Germany, Britain and France. India ranks nineteenth in this chronological order.
6. Computer literacy means - what can computers do and what not?
7. Every year 2 December is celebrated as Computer Literacy Day.
8. In November 1984, the Government of India announced a new computer policy.
9. Siddhartha was the first computer designed in India and it has been manufactured by Electronic Corporation of India.
10. India's first computer was installed on 16 August 1986 at Bangalore's main post office.
11. The first computerized petrol pump was installed in New Delhi.
12. The first pollution-free computerized petrol pump installed in Mumbai.
13. The first computer university in India was Rajiv Gandhi Computer University which is a private institution.
14. India's first computerized reservation system in Railways was introduced in New Delhi.
15. The Silicon Valley of India is located in Bangalore.
16. The first Indian newspaper available on the Internet is Hindu, while the first Indian magazine available on the Internet is India today. 
17. BJP is the first party among all political parties in India to have its own website on the Internet.
18. There are three broad classifications of computers - digital, anologue and hybrid.
19.  A computer that performs arithmetic (mathematical) calculations is called a digital computer.
20. Digital and analog computers jointly form hybrid computers
21. Minicomputer computers are medium-sized.
22. Supercomputers are those that work ten times faster than an ordinary computer.
23. About 40,000 microcomputers are created internally in a supercomputer and are calculated in megaflops.
24. The world's first computer was CRAYK –IS, designed and built-in 1779 by an American company, Cray K Research.
25. The Deep blew is a computer that can work alone equivalent to 232 computers and through the deep blew in one second 20 core multi-option in the chess can counter the game plan opponent. Deep blew was the computer through which chess world champion Garry Kasprov was defeated by Vishwanathan Anand.
26. RNIAC is the world's first electronic digital computer.
27. There are five generations of computers that have been developed so far.
28. In First gen. Computer vacuum tube diodes and triodes were used.
29. Almost all modern computers use semiconductors that contain memory.
30. The Computer board has eight composers.
31. ONE KILO BYTE (1KB) = 1024 BYTE, One Mega BYTE (1MB) = 1024 KILO BYTE (KB).
32. One gigabyte (1GB) = 1024MB
33. A specific language SNOBOL is used to search for instructions and processed programs
34. The most frequently used operating system is WINDOWS.
35. USENET is a technique for creating a system through which all universities are accessed to each other.
36. When a subscriber of an Internet network is connected electronically with another network, it is called a gateway.
37. Pentium iv is Intel's latest microprocessor.
38. Trade Nelson was the first person who wrote a book on personal computers (PCs)
39. Tassi Kecdar, the author of the Computer book Soul of New Machine, received the Pulitzer Prize.
40. The first computer magazine was Computers and Automation
41. According to scientists, the Indian language Sanskrit is the most convenient and suitable for computers.
42. The instructions or programs given in computers are called menus.
43. The storage of records is called a file.
44. The working system of digital computers is completely based on numerical calculations.
45. UNIVAC is the first practical digital computer 
46. FORTRON has been developed as the first computer language through which programs were produced
47. COBOL which is a high-level language is like the English language
48. COBOL has the most appropriate documents possible
49. The assembly language of TRANSLATOR which is converted into machine code is called an assembler.
50. The translated program which is the conversion of a high-level language to a lower-level language is called a compiler
51.  The language BASIC is the mastermind of all languages such as FORTRON, ALGOL, PASCAL etc. which can be learned directly from BASIC.
52. The microprocessor is a fourth-generation computer.
53. PROLOG is the language of a fifth-generation general computer.
54. An integrated circuit (IC) chip with a layer of silicon (coating) was developed by JS Kilvi.
55. In a computer, impurity is called a bug.

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