1. Melissa Garcia Period 1 Mr. Meirik
Under the Hood
PC vs. Mac
Melissa Garcia
Period 1
Mr. Meirik

2. 5 Places to Save Your Files
Five places to save files are, a flash drive, your , a CD, your personal computer file and a hard drive.

3. 5 Major Pieces of Hardware
The most important piece of hardware on your PC is your motherboard. Without it nothing can be used. The second most important is the CPU. It is like the brain of the PC, a motherboard can't run without it. Then it comes RAM. RAM is the memory that the computer uses to run, without RAM you won't be able to install any operating system. Then comes the keyboard, without it you can't install an operating system to the PC, and you won't be able to tell the PC what to do. And also a monitor is needed, to display everything you're doing.

4. The Websites that provided me with this amazing information…
answers.yahoo.com › ... › Programming & Design
› Computers

5. Systems, Applications, and Data
IBM's comprehensive Systems Software solutions help to centralize, streamline and automate your physical and virtual infrastructure, allowing you to optimize workloads and increase your ability to deliver IT services that align with business goals.
Data Software is a program that merges files from several databases, extracts, filters, and summarizes the data without loss of integrity and without interference, and presents it in an easy to use format. Also called data extraction software.
Application software is a term for software created for a specific purpose. Typically it is based on customer requirements but there are classes a general applications. These would be examples like Quicken and QuickBooks - financial applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint - office applications.

6. 5 more important pieces of Hardware
~Hard Drive
~Random Access memory
~Disc Drive
~Floppy
~Video Card

7. 10 Important Events
1937 Alan Turing: Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
1938 Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape
1943 Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine
1946 F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to  random-access memory (RAM)
1950 Hideo Yamachito: The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
1953 The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community.
1971  was invented by  Ray Tomlinson
1974 Steve Jobs creates the Apple Inc.
1983 The first laptop is invented and sold.
2010 The first touch screen monitor screen is created.

8. 9 Computer Measurements
Data MeasurementSizeBitSingle Binary
Digit (1 or 0)Byte8 bitsKilobyte (KB)1,024
BytesMegabyte (MB)1,024
KilobytesGigabyte (GB)1,024
MegabytesTerabyte (TB)1,024
GigabytesPetabyte (PB)1,024
TerabytesExabyte (EB)1,024 Petabytes
Nibble - 4 bits or half a Byte
RAM uses 1024 mebibyte Gibibytes

9. The First PC
In the March, 1974, issue of QST magazine there appeared the first advertisement for a "personal computer." It was called the Scelbi (SCientific, ELectronic and BIological) and designed by the Scelbi Computer Consulting Company of Milford, Connecticut. Based on Intel's 8008 microprocessor, Scelbi sold for $565 and came with 1K of programmable memory, with an additional 15K of memory available for $2760. The second "personal computer kit" was the Mark-8 (also Intel 8008 based) designed by Jonathan Titus.

10. The First Laptop
The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a tiny computer screen built into it. It was invented by Osborne Computers.
The first portable computer was a success, with sales reaching 10,000 units a month. IBM launched the IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer in In 1988, Compaq Computer launched the first laptop PC with VGA graphics, Compaq SLT/286. In 1989, NEC released UltraLite, which was the first 'laptop' computer. Weighting under 5 lbs, it was the precursor of today's models.

11. Virus, Worms, and Trojan Horse
Macro viruses: A macro is a piece of code that can be embedded in a data file.
Worms: Worms are very similar to viruses in that they are computer programs that replicate functional copies of themselves.
Trojan horses: A Trojan horse is a program that does something undocumented which the programmer intended, but that users would not accept if they knew about it.