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    The document provides an overview of basic computer components and processes. It describes the information processing cycle involving input, processing, output, and storage. Key components include input devices like keyboards and mice, memory hardware like ROM and RAM, processing hardware like the CPU, and auxiliary storage devices. It defines other concepts such as data, binary code, bytes, and file sizes. The document also covers software including operating systems and applications, and explains the boot process of loading an operating system into memory.

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    Its All Geek to Me

    COMPUTER BASICS

    The Information Processing Cycle


    MAIN
    MEMORY

    INPUT

    PROCESSING

    AUXILIARY
    STORAGE

    OUTPUT

    INPUT DEVICES (Hardware)


    Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microphone
    Scanner
    Touch screens
    Bar code scanner
    Voice recognition
    Auxiliary Storage Device

    OUTPUT DEVICES (HARDWARE)


    Useful information that leaves the system

    Output Hardware includes:

    Monitor: soft copy

    Printers: hard copy

    Projector

    Voice and music - speakers

    OUTPUT

    MEMORY PROCESSING HARDWARE


    ROM

    RAM

    READ ONLY MEMORY

    RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

    Small

    Main Memory

    Instructions are installed

    Temporaryit is erased

    permanently at the factory


    Cannot be changed
    These instructions check
    the computers resources
    and looks for Operating
    System

    when turned off.


    It is where programs and
    data is stored while being
    processed

    PROCESSING HARDWARE
    Central Processing Unit: CPU
    The Brains or Intelligence of the computer.
    Controls input and output
    interprets instructions
    executes instructions.
    Silicon chip: integrated circuit board
    Pentium: name give to a particular chip
    Hertz: the speed of the CPU
    Gigahertz: executes a billion instructions per second
    Megahertz: executes a million instructions per second

    Processors
    Come in Many Sizes
    Mainframe: large, powerful, serving many connected

    terminals. Super Computers

    Minicomputer: mid-sized, serves more than one

    user at a time

    Microcomputer: PC, individual workstation


    Laptop: portable, small, a.k.a. notebook
    Handheld: cell phones, tablets

    What is Data?
    Facts used by a computer
    Words
    Numbers

    What two numbers are used in Binary Code?


    0 and 1

    They are each called a BIT


    8 BITS make a BYTE
    1 BYTE makes a letter or number
    KILOBYTE = 1,024 bytes
    MEGABYTE = 1,048,576 bytes

    GIGABYTE = 1,024 megabytes


    TERABYTE = 1,024 gigabytes

    AUXILIARY STORAGE DEVICES


    Network Drive (H: drive)

    Hard Disk Drive (C:drive)


    Floppy Disk Drive with 3 Floppy Disk (A:drive)
    Jump Drive/Thumb Drive

    I-Pod
    CD Read/Write Drive
    DVD

    Zip Drive

    AUXILIARY
    STORAGE

    SOFTWARE
    Programs that Make the Computer Work
    Operating System Software
    Vista
    Windows XP: GUI (Graphical User Interface)
    Unix
    Linux

    Application Software
    Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Front Page, Publisher
    WordPerfect
    Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver

    What is the Boot Process?


    The process of starting up a computer from a

    halted or powered-down condition.

    Commands in ROM memory are followed

    The process of loading the Operating System

    software into Main Memory


    Windows 98
    Windows XP
    Unix

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