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Hewlett-Packard
First Scientific Handheld Calculator

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HP-35

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Data that have been collected & processed into a meaningful form.

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Information

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(a spreadsheet program) is first sold for the Apple II computer

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Visicalc

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Category that includes the largest and most powerful computers.

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Supercomputer

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Records and retrieves items to and from a storage medium.

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Storage Device

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ATM

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Automated Teller Machine

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First operating model of mechanical digital calculator using gears. Invented by Blaise Pascal.

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Arithmetic Machine

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small computer designed for use by and individual.

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Personal Computer

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GUI

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Graphical User Interface (GUI

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First counting mechanism, Invented by the Babylonians.

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Abacus

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Case containing electronic components used to process data.

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System Unit

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SOHO

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Small Office/ Home Office

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Joseph Marie Jacquard used punch cards to automate this one.

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Weaving Loom

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○ High Performance single user computer system with sophisticated input/output devices that can be easily networked with other

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Workstation

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MIDI

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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ENIAC

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Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator

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Hardware used to enter data and instructions.

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Input Device

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Also Called as Processor, Electric Component that interprets and carries out the basic instruction that operate the computer.

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CPU (Central Processing Unit)

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Large computer that can service many users simultaneously in support of enterprise-wide application.

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Mainframe Computer

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Consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by
those instructions.

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Memory

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Raw facts, in the form of numbers,special symbols or combination of these.

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Data

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Designed by Leonardo da Vinci’s

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Mechanical Calculator

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Hardware that conveys information to one or more people.

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Output Device

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Prog Language Developed By Niklaus Wirth

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PASCAL

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BASIC

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Beginners All-Purpose symbolic instruction code

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Physical material on which data, instructions, and information are stored.

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Storage Media

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Developed by George Boole

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Boolean Logic