PARTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM LAKEISHA MYERS NATASHA OVERSTREET

COMPUTER COMPONENETS

CPU

Processor

INPUT INPUT OUTPUT

INPUT DEVICES Keyboard Mouse Video Audio

Output Devices Monitor Speakers Printer Graphical Devices

The History of Computers Who invented the computer?" is not a question with a simple answer. The real answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers and that a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention.

The development of the modern day computer was the result of advances in technologies and man's need to quantify. Papyrus helped early man to record language and numbers. The abacus was one of the first counting machines. . Some of the earlier mechanical counting machines lacked the technology to make the design work. For instance, some had parts made of wood prior to metal manipulation and manufacturing. Imagine the wear on wooden gears.