Why You Should Purchase A Pc
...many
advantages to knowing how to use a computer, and it is important that everyone
know how to use them properly. Using the information I have gathered, and my own
knowledge from my 12 years of computer experience, I will explain the many
advantages of owning a computer and knowing how to use a PC and I will attempt
to explain why you should purchase a computer and learn how to use one properly.
Webster's New World Compact Dictionary defines a computer as "an electronic
machine that performs rapid, complex calculations or compiles and correlates
data" ("Computer."). While this definition gives one a very narrow view of what
a computer is capable of doing, it does describe the basic ideas of what I will
expand upon. We have been living through an age of computers for a short while
now and there are already many people world wide that are computer literate.
According to Using Computers: A Gateway to Information World Wide Web Edition,
over 250 million Personal Computers (PC's) were in use by 1995, and one out of
every three homes had a PC (Shelly, Cashman,& Waggoner, 138).
Computers are easy to use when you know how they work and what the parts
are. All computers perform the four basic operations of the information
processing cycle: input, process, output, and storage. Data, any kind of raw
facts, is required for the processing cycle to occur. Data is processed into
useful information by the computer hardware. Most computer systems consist of a
monitor, a system unit which contains the Central Processing Unit (CPU), a
floppy-disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, speakers, a keyboard, a mouse, and a printer.
Each component takes a part in one of the four operations.
The keyboard and mouse are input devices that a person uses to enter data
into the computer. From there the data goes to the system unit where it is
processed into useful information the computer...
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