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PC Operations, Maintenance and Networking

The document provides an overview of computers including their history, generations, components, and how they work. It discusses that Charles Babbage designed the first computer in the 19th century. Computers have progressed through 3 generations from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits. The main components are hardware, software, users, and firmware. Hardware includes input, storage, output, and I/O devices. Computers work by taking input, processing and storing data, and producing output.

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PC Operations, Maintenance and Networking

The document provides an overview of computers including their history, generations, components, and how they work. It discusses that Charles Babbage designed the first computer in the 19th century. Computers have progressed through 3 generations from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits. The main components are hardware, software, users, and firmware. Hardware includes input, storage, output, and I/O devices. Computers work by taking input, processing and storing data, and producing output.

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PC Operations, Maintenance and

Networking
what is a computer?
• Computer, a programmable device for
processing, storing, and displaying information
• an electronic device for storing and processing
data, typically in binary form, according to
instructions given to it in a variable program.
Computer History
• The computer as we know it today had its
beginning with a 19th century English
mathematics professor name Charles
Babbage.
He designed the Analytical Engine and it was
this design that the basic framework of the
computers of today are based on.
• Generally speaking, computers can
be classified into three generations.
Each generation lasted for a certain
period of
time, and each gave us either a new
and improved computer or an
improvement to the existing
computer.
• First generation: 1937 – 1946 - In 1937 the first electronic
digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and
Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer
(ABC). In 1943 an electronic computer name the Colossus
was built for the military. Other developments continued
until in 1946 the first general– purpose digital computer,
the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
(ENIAC) was built. It is said that this computer weighed 30
tons, and had 18,000 vacuum tubes which was used for
processing. When this computer was turned on for the
first time lights dim in sections of Philadelphia. Computers
of this generation could only perform single task, and they
had no operating system.
• Second generation: 1947 – 1962 - This generation of
computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes
which were more reliable. In 1951 the first
computer for commercial use was introduced to the
public; the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC
1). In 1953 the International Business Machine
(IBM) 650 and 700 series computers made their
mark in the computer world. During this generation
of computers over 100 computer programming
languages were developed, computers had memory
and operating systems. Storage media such as tape
and disk were in use also were printers for output.
• Third generation: 1963 - present - The invention of
integrated circuit brought us the third generation
of computers. With this invention computers
became smaller, more powerful more reliable and
they are able to run many different programs at
the same time. In1980 Microsoft Disk Operating
System (MS-Dos) was born and in 1981 IBM
introduced the personal computer (PC) for home
and office use. Three years later Apple gave us the
Macintosh computer with its icon driven interface
and the 90s gave us Windows operating system.
Four Computer components
• Hardware - is the physical components that a
computer system requires to function
• Software-  is a collection of instructions and
data that tell the computer how to work
• User - is a person who utilizes a computer or
network service
• Firmware - is data that is stored on
a computer or other hardware device's ROM
(read-only memory) that provides instruction
on how that device should operate. Unlike
normal software, firmware cannot be changed
or deleted by an end-user without using special
programs, and remains on that device whether
it's on or off. a software program or set of
instructions programmed on a hardware device.
It provides the necessary instructions for how
the device communicates with the
other computer hardware.
How computer works?
Hardware
• Input devices
• Storage devices
• Output devices
• I/O devices
Input devices
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Microphone
• Camera
Output devices
• Speaker
• Printer
• Monitor
I/O devices
• Cd/dvd
• Flash drive
• Hard drive
• Floppy disk

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