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GCSE Computing

The document discusses various computer input and output devices such as mice, keyboards, barcode scanners, printers, monitors, and speakers. It also covers topics like upgrading computer specifications, compressing files, different types of computer memory including RAM, ROM, and flash memory, bitmap and vector images, local and wide area networks, binary and hexadecimal code, and the environmental and social effects of computers.

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GCSE Computing

The document discusses various computer input and output devices such as mice, keyboards, barcode scanners, printers, monitors, and speakers. It also covers topics like upgrading computer specifications, compressing files, different types of computer memory including RAM, ROM, and flash memory, bitmap and vector images, local and wide area networks, binary and hexadecimal code, and the environmental and social effects of computers.

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Software

Computer Input and Output Devices

Mouse:

Keyboard:

Tracker ball:

Barcode scanner:

MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition):


OMR (Optical Mark Reader):


OCR (Optical Character Recognition):


Touch screen:

Voice recognition:

Joystick:
o o

Touchpad:

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface):


o o

Printers:

o o o

o o

o o

o o o

Monitor (screen):

Speaker/headphones:

Lights/LED's:

Motors/relays:

Blindness and visual impairment:


Deafness and hearing impairment:


Speech impairment:

Physical impairment

Upgrading Computers to a Higher Specification

Compressing Files Why and How

CPU

RAM and ROM

o o o

SUMMARY: The more RAM installed in a personal computer, the higher the performance.

SUMMARY: Virtual memory is memory that uses secondary storage to supplement RAM, but to the CPU it appears as if the whole program is loaded and running from RAM.

o o o o o

SUMMARY: Flash memory combines the permanence of ROM with the flexibility of RAM, but not the speed.

o o

SUMMARY: the characteristics of different physical memory types.

Bitmaps and Vectors

Bitmap images:

Vector images:

LANs and WANs

Binary Code

Hexadecimal Code

Effect of computers on environment

Social effects of computers

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