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| Communications | there ability to connect with other computers over telephone lines and other network connections |
| Internet | a worldwide network of computer systems that allows for the exchange of electronic mail, public messages, data, and files |
| Desktop Publishing | the use of a personal computer as a production system for creating high-quality text and graphic documents |
| Database Management System | a computer system organized to manage a large collection of data |
| Spreadsheets | a document created in a spreadsheet application that consists of rows and columns that data and formulas are entered into |
| Word Processing | using an application that allows the user to create, edit, format, or print a document |
| Dumb terminal | a screen and a keyboard to a computer that is located somewhere else |
| Mainframe | a multi-user computer designed to be used in a large organizations, generally with dumb terminals |
| minicomputer | a multi-user computer designed to be more powerful than a personal computer, but not as powerful or large as a mainframe |
| microcomputer | any computer with its arithmetic-logic unit and control unit on one integrated circuit |
| supercomputer | an expensive and sophisicated computer designed to perform complex calculations at the fastest possibl speed using the most modern technology |
| microprocessor | the device that does the computing in a computer system |
| disk drives | storage devices for data |
| ROM | memory chips that have data permanently stored on them |
| Herman Hollerith | 1890 census |
| calculations | math problems |
| speakers | sound output |
| ENIAC | developed by John William Mauchly and John Presper Eckert |
| pascaline | invented by Pascal |
| chip | intergrated circuit |
| caculations | math problems |
| printer | produce hard copy |
| monitor | visual output |
| mouse | hand held output device |
| keyboard | text input device |
| output | results |
| input | raw data |
| interact | what people do with computers |
| software | instructions for the computer |
| hardware | physical parts of the computer |
| general purpose computer | type of computer that we have |
| specific purpose computer | a computer that will only one thing |
| microcomputer | desktop computer |
| blaise pascal | machinical computer |
| RAM | randon access memory |
| Abacus | earliest known computer |
| analytical engine | Charles Babbage |
| modem | communication tool |
| vacuum tubes | first electrical computer |
| microphone | voice iput device |
