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| Computer | Electronic device that receives data, processes data, and produces a result |
| Small Desktop Computers | The most popular type of computer |
| 1977 | First personal computer was sold |
| Microcomputer | the type of computer used at home or at the office by one person |
| Notebook computer | same capabilities as the desktop computer. Musc smaller and more expensive |
| Personal digital Assistant | Palm top computer (palm pilot) |
| Mini computers | larger than microcomputers and basically have the same cabilities, cost is much higher. |
| Mainframe computers | Used for centralized storage, processing and management of very large amount of data. |
| Super computers | largest and fastest computers |
| Hardware | tangible, physical equipment that can be seen and touched |
| Software | intangible set of instructions that tells the computer what to do |
| Data | new facts entered into the ocmputer to be processed |
| People | Users of the computers who enter data |
| Data communication | technology that enable computers to communicate. |
| Data communication | the transmission of text, numeric, voice or video data from one machine to another. |
| Sender | computer sending the message |
| Receiver | computer reciving the message |
| Channel | Media tha carries or transports the message |
| Protocol | rules that govern the orderly transfer of the data sent. |
| Networks | One of the most utilized types of dat communications in the business world |
| Networks | connects one computer to other computers and peripheral devices and enables the computers to share data and resources |
| Internet | originally developed for the government to enable researchers around the world to be able to share information. |
| e-mail | most commonly used feature on the Internet |
| Intranet | for the exclusive use of users withing the organization and contains only company information |
| Extranets | applications that allow outside organizations to access internal information systems |
