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Computer

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Computer
A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem.

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History of computing
The first use of the word computer was recorded in 1613 in a book called The yong mans gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwait I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.

The Jacquard loom, on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England, was one of the first programmable devices.

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Limited-function early computers

Around the end of the 10th century, the French monk Gerbert d'Aurillac brought back from Spain the drawings of a machine invented by the Moors that answered either Yes or No to the questions it was asked. Initially, it was in trying to develop more powerful and more flexible calculators that the computer was first theorized by Charles Babbage and then developed.

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Hardware
The simplest definition of what hardware is that everything physical that we can see on a computer, is considered hardware.

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Hardware Parts
INTERNAL
Ram Motherboard Video card Sound card Bios CPU Network card

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EXTERNAL Monitor Mouse Keyboard Speaker

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Software

Organized information in the form of operating systems, utilities, programs, and applications that enable computers to work.

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Software consists of carefullyorganized instructions and code written by programmers in any of various special computer languages. Software is divided commonly into two main categories: System software: controls the basic (and invisible to the user) functions of a computer and comes usually preinstalled with the machine. See also BIOS and Operating System. Application software: handles multitudes of common and specialized tasks a user wants to perform, such as accounting, communicating, data processing, word processing.

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disadvantages of computers
1. They are expensive. 2. Depending on the OS and software/hardware installed, they can be difficult to maintain.

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3. If you have the internet and don't have an Anti-Virus program, or at least an AntiSpyware program, surfing the web can ruin your day. 4. Hackers can interfare in your personel things. 5. Addictive to people when using internet.

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