Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 7 стр.

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Университет ИТМО | Санкт-Петербург

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leader in the computer industry. UNIVAC was the first successful commercial
computer, and the first model was sold to the US Census Bureau in 1951.
Notes
to achieve a fame - достичь славы
to close a circuit - замкнуть цепь
to crack codes - взламывать коды
COMPREHENSION CHECK
Exercise 1. Choose the correct word to complete the sentences according the
information in the text.
1. The … has never been completed.
a) model
b) experiment
c) frame
2. The new technology … worldwide fame in tabulating the US Census of 1890.
a) reached
b) achieved
c) took
3. Many people credit the … of the first electronic computer to John Vincent
Atanasoft.
a) fame
b) task
c) invention
4. Eckert and Mauchly went on … UNIVAC.
a) carry out
b) to create
c) to sell
Exercise 2. Join suitable parts.
1. In 1822 Charles Babbage, professor a. appeared in a variety of military
of mathematics at Cambridge and intelligence applications in 1930s.
University… b. created the “Analytical engine”.
2. The Census Bureau turned … c. after leaving the University.
3. Analog and digital calculators with d. to a new tabulating machine
electromechanical components … invented by Herman Hollerith.
4. World War II prompted the e. of the first working all-electronic
development… digital computer Colossus.
f. the need to calculate detailed
mechanical tables.

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