Mid Flashcards
Hewlett-Packard
First Scientific Handheld Calculator
HP-35
Data that have been collected & processed into a meaningful form.
Information
(a spreadsheet program) is first sold for the Apple II computer
Visicalc
Category that includes the largest and most powerful computers.
Supercomputer
Records and retrieves items to and from a storage medium.
Storage Device
ATM
Automated Teller Machine
First operating model of mechanical digital calculator using gears. Invented by Blaise Pascal.
Arithmetic Machine
small computer designed for use by and individual.
Personal Computer
GUI
Graphical User Interface (GUI
First counting mechanism, Invented by the Babylonians.
Abacus
Case containing electronic components used to process data.
System Unit
SOHO
Small Office/ Home Office
Joseph Marie Jacquard used punch cards to automate this one.
Weaving Loom
○ High Performance single user computer system with sophisticated input/output devices that can be easily networked with other
Workstation
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
ENIAC
Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator
Hardware used to enter data and instructions.
Input Device
Also Called as Processor, Electric Component that interprets and carries out the basic instruction that operate the computer.
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
Large computer that can service many users simultaneously in support of enterprise-wide application.
Mainframe Computer
Consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by
those instructions.
Memory
Raw facts, in the form of numbers,special symbols or combination of these.
Data
Designed by Leonardo da Vinci’s
Mechanical Calculator
Hardware that conveys information to one or more people.
Output Device
Prog Language Developed By Niklaus Wirth
PASCAL
BASIC
Beginners All-Purpose symbolic instruction code
Physical material on which data, instructions, and information are stored.
Storage Media
Developed by George Boole
Boolean Logic
