HISTORY OF COMPUTER THE PRE-MECHANICAL AGE: 3000 B.C. – 1450 A.D. 1. Writing and Alphabets – Communication First development of signs corresponding to spoken sounds‚ instead of pictures‚ to express words. Around 2000 B.C.‚ Phoenicians created symbols that expressed single syllables and consonants (the first true alphabet) The Greeks later adopted the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels; the Romans gave the letters Latin names to create the alphabet we use today. 2. Paper
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Computer Technician “The first special-purpose electronic digital computer was constructed in 1939 by John V. Atanasoff‚ an American mathematician and physicist. In 1944‚ Howard Aiken‚ a Harvard University professor‚ built another digital computer‚ the Mark 1.” (The World Book) To become a Computer Technician one needs at least one or two years of technical training and have good math skills. Computer technicians manage everybody’s computer problems‚ from installing machines to networks in homes
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A computer system consists of mainly four basic units; namely input unit‚ storage unit‚ central processing unit and output unit. Central Processing unit further includes Arithmetic logic unit and control unit‚ as shown in the figure:. A computer performs five major operations or functions irrespective of its size and make. These are • it accepts data or instructions as input‚ • it stores data and instruction • it processes data as per the instructions‚ • it controls all operations inside a computer
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SEAFDEC Village‚ Tigbauan‚ Iloilo SYLLABUS IN COMPUTER 1 1st Grading Period 1. Definition of Computer‚ Uses of Computers‚ Things that a computer can and cannot do 2. History of Computers 3. Uses of computers in Different Places 4. Parts of a Computer 5. How a Computer Works 6. The Elements of Computer System 2nd Grading Period 1. How to Turn on and Turn Off a Computer 2. Caring for Your Computer 3. Definition of Operating System 4. Parts
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provided by the sensor and sending the barcode’s content to the scanner’s output port. Biometrics Biometrics[1] (or biometric authentication)[note 1] refers to the identification of humans by their characteristics or traits. Biometrics is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control.[2] It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are undersurveillance.[citation needed] Biometric identifiers are the distinctive‚ measurable characteristics used to label and describe
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What are the Parts of Computer? The Parts of a Desktop Computer are: 1. System unit The system unit is the core of a computer system. Usually it’s a rectangular box placed on or underneath your desk. Inside this box are many electronic components that process information. The most important of these components is the central processing unit (CPU)‚ or microprocessor‚ which acts as the "brain" of your computer. Another component is random access memory (RAM)‚ which temporarily stores
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or about 62 percent of the American population had at least one home computer. Another statistic is that about 55% of people also have internet on there home computers. In everyday life it is important for a person to have good ethics; this is also true about computer usage. Due to the fact that more then half of the American population owns computers‚ computer ethics are a growing concern in a rapidly changing society. Computer ethics can be broken down in to many topics including piracy‚ hacking
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Computers are one of the most important inventions ever. If computers had not been invented‚ technology would not be developed to its current state. Since the computers invention‚ society has changed drastically. Computer technology is so helpful‚ that it is even used to create newer‚ better computer equipment. Almost everything today is linked in some way‚ to computers. Before computers were invented‚ very little was known about outer space. With the technology we have now‚ we are learning
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Build a Computer Computers are one of those technologies that‚ as the years pass‚ get more complicated yet simpler at the same time. The truth is‚ a person need not know anything at all of transistors‚ capacitor or the whole bunch to "build" a computer. All you really need to know are two important things. One is to always keep yourself (electrostatically) grounded‚ and secondly‚ you need to know how to put a jigsaw puzzle together. Now one would ask what a jigsaw puzzle has to do with computers‚ and
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Computer Multimedia Sam Quesinberry Computers have come a long way very fast since there start in the 1940’s. In the beginning they were mainly used for keeping financial records by banks and insurance companies‚ and for mathematical computations by engineers and the U.S. Military. However‚ exciting new applications have developed rapidly in the last few years. Two of these areas is Computer Graphics and sound. Computer graphics is the ability of the computer to display‚ store and transmit
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