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 Agenda

• Computer Hardware
– Input Devices
– Output Devices
– Secondary Storage
• Computer Software
– System Software
– Application Software
– Working with Windows
• Computer Network Basics

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 A Computer is a device which allows you to

Input raw data

Perform Computations/Processing
Store the data for retrieval
Obtain desired information

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 A computer is:

• An electronic machine that can be

programmed to accept data
(input), and process it into useful
information (output). Data is put in
secondary storage for
safekeeping or later use.
• The processing of input into output
is directed by the software, but
performed by the hardware.

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 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IS COMPLEX BUT BASED
ON SIMPLE PRINCIPLE

Input as Raw Data

Output as
Information

Instructions
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Storage

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Computers process data by means of a binary system.

• Computers are devices powered by electricity, which has two

discrete states: On or Off.

• Two digits represent these states: 0 for the electronic state of

Off, and 1 representing On (the presence of an electronic
charge).

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 What are the main components ?

• Hardware

• Software

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 Basic Computer Hardware

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Computer systems consist of the following
hardware components:

• Input devices accept data or commands in a form

useable by computers. Data and commands can also be
sent to the processing unit; e.g., keyboards, mice,
scanners, microphone, digital camera.
• Output devices display the processed information
understandably and usefully; e.g. printers, monitors,
speakers.
• Processing devices are contained in a computer’s
system unit and are comprised of circuitry. The main
circuit board is the motherboard, with its central
processing unit (CPU) and memory.

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•Storage devices include secondary storage for data and
programs outside the computer’s processing unit; e.g. hard disk
drives, floppy disk drives, Zip drives, CD-ROM, CD-RW and
DVD-ROM drives. Drives read from and write to storage media
(the physical material that can store data and programs).

•Communication devices provide connections between

computers and communication networks, allowing for exchange
of information and data with other computers via transmission
media such as cables, telephone lines and satellites.

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 Graphic Representation of Computer Components:

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 PROCESSOR
CPU, ALU, CU
Input Devices OUTPUT DEVICES
MEMORY

Secondary Storage

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 LET US HAVE A LOOK INSIDE

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 The Motherboard

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 INPUT DEVICES

Keyboard Scanner

Mouse

Joystick

Microphone
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 Mouse Pointer Forms

 Standard Pointer form.


 Form when changing a window’s height
 Form when changing a window’s width
 Form when changing a window’s height and width
simultaneously

Form when changing a width of a field in a table
Form when inserting the text
 Form when moving a field to a new position in the table
Form when application being executed or a wait state
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 Esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 Print Scroll Pause Num Caps Scroll
Screen Lock Break Lock Lock Lock

~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + Page Num

Insert Home Lock / * -
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{ } | Page 7 8 9
Tab Q W E R T Y U I O P Delete End
[ ] \ Down Home PgUp

+
Caps : “ 4 5 6
A S D F G H J K L Enter
Lock ; ‘

1 2 3
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Shift Z X C V B N M Shift End PgDn
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Enter

0 .
Ctrl Alt Alt Ctrl Ins Del
SPACE BAR

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 INPUT DEVICES Contd…

TV tuner card
Digital Camera

Digital Video camera

Bar code Scanner

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 OUTPUT DEVICES

Printer Monitor Speakers

Fax
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 SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES

Magnetic Tape
Floppy

CDROM
Hard Disk

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Secondary Storage Devices Contd…

• Disk drives
– Internal & External
– Hard drives
– Removable disk drives
• Floppy disks (1.4 MB)
• ZIP disks (100/250 MB)
• CD-ROM (700MB), DVD-ROM (~5GB/side)
– read only (-ROM), write once (-R),
re-writeable (-RW)
• Combination drive
– CD-RW/DVD-ROM, CD-RW/DVD-R

• Many other forms

• Memory Stick, Multi Media Card, Compact
Flash, and Smart Media

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 External Hard Drives

• IEEE 1394, commonly

called Fire Wire, is a very
fast external bus
standard that supports
60 GB External Hard Drive data transfer rates of up
(Fire Wire) to 400Mbps (in 1394a)
Universal Buslink Corp.
and 800Mbps (in 1394b).

Iomega 60GB Portable

USB Hard Drive

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Computer Configuration
Characteristic Example
 Present day PC Family Pentium IV / AMD
Memory 512MB/1GB
Microprocessor chip Intel P IV / AMD
Clock Speed 3.0 GHz
Cache Memory 512KB
 Hard Disk Drive 80GB
 Floppy Disk Drives 1.44 MB
 CD Drive 52 X
Monitor TFT Digital Monitor
2MB RAM ( 1024 X 768)
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Latest Technology
Bluetooth Products

Bluetooth Mobile Phone, headset, PDAs

Mouse

Bluetooth printer and laptop with

Cordless Bar code Scanner bluetooth adapter

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 Hardware recap

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 Basic Computer Software

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 Software: A set of instruction
( programs ) that makes the
hardware perform a particular set of
tasks.
Software

System Application
Software Software

Operating General Compilers for high

Utilities Purpose Level Languages
System

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Kernel
•DOS Hardware

• Windows
XP Kernel
•Unix USER INTERFACE
Shell(s)
•Windows - Text based
2003
- Windows based
•Linux
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 Software Layers in a Computer System

DOS, UNIX, WINDOWS XP, Memory Management, File

WINDOWS 2000, Linux,OS2, etc. Management, Anti Virus etc.
Operating System Utilities
System Software
Ms-Office, Lotus SmartSuite, C, C++, .NET Framework, JAVA
Ventura, Pagemaker, etc. SmallTalk, J2Eetc.
Application Software Higher Level Languages
General Purpose Software
Scientific Business Design Marketing Entertainment ……….
User Designed Application Software

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 Computing Environments

• Single user

• Multi user

• Networked

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 Personal Computer

Single User System

• One user can work on it

• No efficient use of System
• Operating System like MSDOS, PCDOS
• Resource sharing cannot be done

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 Workstation

Main Computer
• More than one user can
Terminal
work on the system
• Operating System like
Unix, Xinex, Linux etc
• Resource sharing can
Multi User System be done
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 Network Basics

• What is networking?

• Goals of a Networking

• Classification of Network

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 Networking
What is a Network?
 A network is a group of interconnected
systems which share services and interact
with each other by means of a shared
communication link
 These systems can be located anywhere
 Network is often classified according to its
geographical size.

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Goals of networking

Goal of having networking environment is

to provide services and to reduce the
equipment costs. The primary reasons for
networking Pc's are as follows:
Sharing files
Sharing printers and other devices
Provide Distributed Computing
Centralized administration of
Resources
Security of Resources
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 Classification of Network
The most common classification of networks
are:
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Wide Area Network (WAN)
• Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

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 LANs

• A local area network is a group of

computers and network communication
devices interconnected within a limited
area such as a building or a campus
• Local area network is less expensive
and data transfer rate is quite high

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 Unix/NT
Server
LINE Printer

Ethernet Cable

LTS(LAN Terminal Server)

WORKSTATION

LASER Printer
TERMINAL
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 WANs

• Wide area network interconnects LANs.Wide area

network may be located around the world
• It is quite expensive as the technology required to
connect different LAN's is more complex and
sophisticated. Also the data transmission is more
susceptible to errors in case of WANs as
transmission is for long distances

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 Satellite

LAN

Fiber Link Dish Antenna

LAN
LAN
LAN
Leased Telephone Line

PC
Modem
Dial-up Line
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 The Internet

Every machine
transparently connected to
every other

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