COMPUTER HONOR

Presented by Bradley Da Silva

TASK 1
Write

down 200 words or

give a three-minute oral
report about the history
of computers.

Abacus

Theabacus, also called acounting

frame, is a calculating tool that was
in use centuries before the adoption
of the written modern numeral
system and is still widely used by
merchants, traders and clerks
inAsia,Africa, and elsewhere.

1936

The first programmable computer is

the Z1 originally created by
Germany's Konrad Zuse in his
parents living room in 1936 to 1938
is considered to be the first electrical
binary programmable computer. The
first digital computer, the ABC started
being developed by Professor John
Vincent Atanasoff and graduate
student Cliff Berry in 1937.

Binary Code
Decimal

Binary

10

11

100

101

110

111

1000

1001

Z1

1943
Then

followed the
ENIAC, then the
EDSAC as the first
stored program
electronic computer

Eniac(Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer)

EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage

Automatic)

1954
Toshiba

introduces
its first computer,
the TAC digital
computer.

TAC
Tokyo Shibaura Denki

1958
NEC

(NipponElectric
Company) builds its first
computer, the NEAC
1101

NEAC 1101

1960
Digital

Equipment
Corporation (DEC)
released its first of
many PDP computers,
the PDP-1

DEC PDP-1

1966
Hewlett

Packard released
its first general
computer, the HP - 2115

1974
XEROX

ALTO is
considered to be the
first workstation

XEROX ALTO

IBM PC

Compaq Portable

Turbo PC (Dell)

IBM thinkPad 775CD

1995 Java is introduced

1998

2001

TASK 2

Define

the
following
terms:

Hardware
Hardware

is any
physical portion of a
computing device,
such as memory,
motherboard etc

Software

Software is a term describing a set of

instructions that control the operation
of a computer. Software can be easily
changed and updated. Once it has
been created, it can be reproduced
very cheaply. This is because
software is not something that can be
touched or held in a person's hand.

Software

The media on which the software is

written can be touched, but the media
does not generally look any different
after the software is written to it.
Software can be stored on many types
of media, and can in fact be distributed
without the use of a storage medium
(other than its final storage destination
on a computer's hard drive).

Floppy Disk/Stiffy Disk

A

floppy disk is a
removable storage
media for
computers.

Floppy Disk/Stiffy Disk

hard drive
A

hard drive is a
nonvolatile data
storage device.

DOS or OS
OS

stands for "Operating

System" and DOS stands
for "Disk Operating
System."

DVD

DVD(sometimes explained as "digital

video disc" or "digital versatile disc)
is a digitaloptical
discstorageformat, invented and
developed byPhilips,Sony,Toshiba,
andPanasonicin 1995.

CPU

Letter Quality

Dot Matrix

Laser

Plotter

Ink Jet

Thermal

One way to protect a computer from

dust and dirt is to locate it in an area
where there is little dust or no dirt at
all.
A computer should be elevated off
the floor. It can be stored on a desk,
or even on top of a block of wood getting it even an inch or two off the
floor will prevent it from
accumulating much dust.

Anti wrist strap

Surge Protector and UPS

7. Name at least four input devices

for computers

Keyboard
Mouse
Digital Camera
Scanner
Microphone
Network Interface Card
Modem
Flash Drive
Floppy Drive
CD Rom Drive

Uses of a PC

Tracking finances, staying in contact

with other family members, record
keeping, making documents,
producing web pages, connecting to
the Internet, researching a school (or
work) assignment, getting directions,
finding lost friends, downloading
pathfinder honors requirements and
answers, and many, many more!