1. Under the Hood Jacqueline Garcia Period 2 Computer class

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3. Software System Software: ( the code that boots the computer and controls the devices, resources and applications). People know this as Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc. This is typically read from a disk and loaded disk and loaded into RAM, although it could also be manifested as PROM, in which case it is read from non-volatile memory. Application Software: This is software that can be written for a platform such as Windows, or in today’s world, a web-based application that uses the Network and System software noted above. Apps-a-million is all I can say. Some are brilliant, and the rest are aborted works in progress. Data: 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.

4. Hardware Keyboard: The keyboard helps you type, and search for things. Monitor: The monitor is used to view everything you search it is a screen. Mouse: The mouse is used to control anywhere you want to go to on the screen. desk top: this refers to the information on the screen or the files that the computer user has called up. Disk: An information storage device for a computer.

5. Hardware 2 Speaker: let you here the sound from a video you are looking at on the computer. Motherboard: A printed circuit board containing the principal components of a microcomputer or other device, with connectors into which other circuit. memory card: A small, flat flash drive used esp. in digital cameras and cell phones. Video camera: A camera for recording images on videotape or for transmitting them to a monitor screen. System Unit: A system unit, also known as a S.U., is the main unit of a personal computer, typically consisting of a metal or plastic enclosure...

6. Computer History 1995: Open BSD and Microsoft Windows 95 came up during 1995 1996: Windows NT 4.0 hit the computing market in 1996. 1998: 1998 witnessed the release of Windows 98 as well of Solaris 7. 2000: Windows 2000, which hit the markets in 2000, was the first Windows server operating system to drop the 'NT' suffixed to its name. Windows ME, which was sold during this year, was the last operating system in the Windows 9x line. Red Hat Linux 6.2E also came up during 2000. 2001: Windows XP was launched and soon gained a wide popularity. Windows XP 64-bit edition followed in 2002. 2002: Windows XP Service Pack 1 was released in 2002. 2003: witnessed the launch of the Windows 2003 Server as also the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. 2004: Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released in 2004. 2006: Windows Vista hit the markets 2008: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 came up in 2008. It was also during this very year that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released.

7. measurements bits (b) - 0's and 1's lowest form of measurement off or on Nibble - 4 bits or half a Byte Byte (B) - is one Character consisting of 8 binary digits Kilobyte or KB - equals 1024 Characters or consisting of a half page of text Megabyte or MB - equals 1,048,576 Characters or one typical novel Gigabyte or GB - equals 1,073,741,824 characters or 1 thousand novels Terabyte or TB - equals 1,099,511,627,776 characters or entire library * Note computers use binary (base two) math, instead of a decimal (base ten) system

8. The first laptop Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent 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 and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. The computer considered by most historians to be the first true portable computer was the Osborne 1. Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher founded Osborne Computer and produced the Osborne 1 in 1981, a portable computer that weighed 24 pounds and cost $1795. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives, a large collection of bundled software programs, and a battery pack. The short-lived computer company was never successful.

9. First pc The Computer Museum in Boston asked that question in 1986, and held a contest to find the answer. Judges settled on John Blankenbaker’s Kenbak-1 as the first personal computer. Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board. The title of first personal computer using a microprocessor went to the 1973 Micral. Designed in France by André Truong Trong Thi and Francois Gernelle, the Micral used the Intel 8008 microprocessor.

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