Critical Thinking Questions (Multiple Choice) COLOSSUS Was an Electronic Device

question 45

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking questions (Multiple Choice) COLOSSUS was an electronic device that ____.

• A) successfully broke the Enigma codes and gave Allies during World War II a major advantage
• B) was designed to calculate trajectory tables for the U.S. Army
• C) could read data at the rate of 7,200 characters per second, and complete 2.25 million instruction cycles per second
• D) was used to tabulate the 1890 U.S. census

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