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General purpose computers are those that can be adopted to countless uses simply by changing its

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What is the name of the visible silver rectangle which separates the take-up portion of the magnetic tape from the data recording portion?

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A part located in the central processing unit that stores data & information is known as

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A software package to perform calculations on data arranged in an array is

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What was the name of the first stored program electronic computer which was built in 1949 at Cambridge University in England?

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A computer with CPU speed around 100 million instructions per second & with the word length of around 64 bits is known as

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A computer program consists of

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An input device which can read characters directly from an ordinary piece of paper is

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Which of the following is not a part of the CPU

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Which of the following chips can be reprogrammed with special electric pulses?

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In this world of fast changing computer technology, one of the most important factor to be considered while purchasing a PC is, it should have a provision for

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A collection of eight bits is called

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The ALU of a central processing unit does the essential maths work for the computer. What does the control unit do?

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Which of the following storage and retrieval methods would be well suited to your processing requirements if you only need to retrieve records one at a time and there is no fixed pattern to the requests for data and records?

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In MODEMS

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Which is a secondary memory device?

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A storage device which is used to store data & information external to the main storage is known as

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In a PC, how much memory is available to application software?

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For a memory system, the cycle time is

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The number of records contained within a block of data on magnetic tape is defined by the

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