1. Molly Cubba September 20th 2012 1st Period
Under The Hood
Molly Cubba
September 20th 2012
1st Period

2. Saving On the Desktop On your Student Drive On a Flash Drive Burn a CD
Project to Yourself
ThawSpace

3. Software
System Software: It controls the devices, resources, and applications.
Data Software: It enables communication of the System Software to other computers over a network.
Application Software: This is the software that can be used for a platform such as Windows. Most commonly, “apps” are used on smart phones.

4. Hardware
Mouse: A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs a cursor to move about a computer screen.
Power Supply Unit: A plug or a power strip. Something that you can plug the computer cords into.
Hard Drive: A disk that reads data stored on a hard disk.
Graphics Card: The plug-in card in a desktop computer that creates the electronic signals needed for the monitor.
Sound Card: A circuit that generates an audio signal and sends it to a computer's speakers.

5. Hardware Continued
Motherboard: The main board of a computer, the central processing unit.
Video Card: The circuit board that creates the images on your monitor.
Monitor: A device similar to a television set that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on its screen.
Ram: An acronym for Random Access Memory, a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly
Keyboard: A set of keys, as on a computer terminal, where you can type and the letters appear on the monitor.

6. Measurement Terms Bit (BIT) - 0 or 1 or Byte B - 8 bits
kilobyte (decimal) KB1000 bytes megabyte (decimal) MB1000 kilobytes gigabyte (decimal) GB1000 megabytes terabyte (decimal) TB1000 gigabytes petabyte (decimal ) PB1000 terabytes exabyte (decimal) EB1000 petabytes

7. Computer History
1939- Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator.
1942- The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed. After successfully demonstrating a proof-of-concept prototype in 1939, Atanasoff received funds to build the full-scale machine.  Built at Iowa State College (now University), the ABC was designed and built by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry between 1939 and 1942.
1949- Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge University. His ideas were inspired by his college coursed three years prior.
1963- Tandy Radio Shack is founded.  Tandy Radio Shack (TRS) was formed by the 1963 merger of Tandy Leather Company and Radio Shack.  TRS began by selling a variety of electronic products. The TRS-80 Model I computer, introduced in 1977, was a major step in introducing home computers to the public.
1971- RCA sells its computer division. RCA was founded in 1919 to make vacuum tubes for radio, then a new invention. RCA began designing and selling its own computers.

8. Computer History Continued
1976- Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I, a single-board computer. With specifications in hand and an order for 100 machines at $500 each from the Byte Shop, he and Steve Jobs got their start in business.
1980- Seagate Technology created the first hard disk drive for microcomputers, the ST506. The disk held 5 megabytes of data, five times as much as a standard floppy disk, and fit in the space of a floppy disk drive.
1989- Intel released the microprocessor and the i860 RISC/coprocessor chip, each of which contained more than 1 million transistors.
1991- Pretty Good Privacy is introduced.  Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, is an encryption program.  Its inventor, software engineer Phil Zimmermann, created it as a tool for people to protect themselves from intrusive governments around the world. 
1994- Yahoo is founded. Founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed. Yahoo originally resided on two machines, Akebono and Konishiki, both named after famous Sumo wrestlers.

9. Types of Computers
PC- The IBM PC was introduced in It was perhaps the first to wear the "PC" label, but that was IBM's only computer. It was in the form of a desktop and was the 5150 PC model.
Laptop- The first laptop was designed in 1979 by a Briton named William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model the same in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case. One of the most famous laptops is called the Osborne portable.

10. Virus, Worm, Trojan
Virus- Computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to spread from one computer to another and to interfere with computer operation.
Worm- Computer worms are malicious software applications designed to spread via computer networks.
Trojan- Named after the Trojan Horse of ancient Greek history, a Trojan is a network software application designed to remain hidden on an installed computer. They can steal personal information from a computer.

11. Companies Dell- Michael Dell is known as the founder and CEO.
Apple- Steve Jobs formed Apple. He passed away recently. He designed all of the Apple products.
Intel- Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel. Noyce was the General Manager and Moore was the head of Research and Development.
Mac- Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak founded the Mac computer.

12. Companies Continued
Microsoft- Paul Allen and Bill Gates have a partnership in this company. Bill Gates is chairman of Microsoft.
HP- David Packard and William Redington Hewlet founded HP in the 1900s.
Toshiba- Hisashige Tanaka, Ichisuke Fujioka, and Shoichi Miyoshi founded Toshiba with a merge of companies.

13. The future
In the future, I think that computers will be even more important to peoples everyday life than they are now. Maybe we will have built in water-proof computers in our shower. Everyone could even when taking a shower.
Or we could even have the tips of our hair be microphones so we could talk on the phone when we pat our head then talk. That would actually be pretty cool.
I also think that there will be holographs and touch screen computers that float in the middle of a room. I think we will come up with some fascinating things like having a see-through cell phone that still works like a normal phone.

14. Bibliography http://www.info.eb.com