First programmable computer: The Z1 originally created by Germany’s Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. The first digital computer: Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer‚ the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). On October 19‚ 1973‚ US Federal Judge
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Computer Memory Hacking Computer Memory Hacking Rebecca M. Shepherd CIS 106 Intoduction to Information Technology Professor Dima Salman Stayer University November 23‚ 2014 Computer Memory Hacking Hacking of memory or hacking of RAM describes when a person or person(s) gains unauthorized access to the RAM (random access memory) of a computer system. There a couple of reasons that one might participate in hacking the memory of a computer system. One reason
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COMPUTER HARDWARE HIT 1403. Assignment 1 Bektemir Kassymov Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................3 Hard Disk .....................................................................................................................................5 History of hard disks. .................................................................................................
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USE AND ABUSE OF COMPUTERS IN THE WORKPLACE by Bob Gregg Boardman & Clark LLP One South Pinckney Street‚ 4th Floor P. O. Box 927 Madison‚ WI 53701-0927 Telephone (608) 283-1751 rgregg@boardmanclark.com Our major form of workplace communication is becoming electronic. People do not have faceto-face‚ oral conversations. Email is taking over. It is fast‚ efficient—and dangerous. Employees just rip off an email with far less thought or editing than a letter. The e-system has replaced the break room
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history of computers and evolution Computers have been around a lot longer than many people might imagine. The word "computer" has changed meaning over decades‚ but the electronic computer that we think of in modern times developed throughout the second half of the 20th century. Its popularity as a household item surged in the 1980s following the arrival of operating systems by Apple and Microsoft that mixed graphics and text‚ replacing the text-only systems of the 1970s. By the 1990s‚ computers incorporated
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Computers Hold So Much Information; Sometimes Causing More Harm Than Good After reading a few short stories and conducting research on the subjects‚ I have found some interesting facts about how the computer has changed people’s lives. Computers have become the basis on which our society now depends; they are the key to communication‚ business‚ and success for many. Problems can arise however and privacy can be a major issue especially when it comes to certain websites such as MySpace and
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data or do other unwanted actions in a computer system. ------------------------------------------------- Answer | | viruses | | | malware | | | spyware | | | trojans | 1 points Question 4 ------------------------------------------------- What type of computer provides a centralized storage area for data and for network versions of application programs thus avoiding the need to install individual copies of applications on each computer? -------------------------------------------------
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Differences between tablet computers and netbook computers We cannot deny the fact that nowadays computers play a great role in our lives. For a century computers have developed. They have become bigger in term of performances and smaller in sizes and prices. If we look back about a hundred years ago‚ we would see that computers were gigantic and could do only some calculations. But now‚ computers cannot do only calculations but can also be a movie theatre‚ your favorite singer or even your friends
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The Best Computer for a Gamer Computer games take up a lot of memory. Those who love to play games all the time would know this. In order to keep their computers from running out of memory space‚ they need to go out and buy chips that give them more space to store memory for their games. They could keep going out and buying memory chip after memory chip or they could buy a computer that would give them enough memory to hold all their games and than some. This is where the Dell Inspiron 1720
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fourth generation computer - A computer built using Very Large Scale Integration(VLSI) integrated circuits‚ especially a microcomputer based on a microprocessor‚ or a parallel processor containing two to thousands of CPUs. VLSI made it routine to fabricate an entire CPU‚ main memory‚ or similar device with a single integrated circuit that can be mass produced at very low cost. This has resulted in new classes of machines such as personal computers‚ and high performance parallel processors that
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