Under the hood Tawny Gutierrez 2

Where to save files  Flash drive it to yourself Mac or PC Mac or PC Mac or PC Mac or PC  CD’s Student file Mac or PC if your saving at school Mac or PC if your saving at school

Software Final Cut Pro- A video editing system used on Macs. Picasa- a photo editing program used on Mac or PC. Mcafee- A viris killer for computers. Used on Mac or PC

5 pieces on a computer. Memory- A computer is useless with out it. Cpu- The brain of a computer GPU(graphics card) a computer that can't see is useless to the user PSU-a body without an electrical source is useless Hard drive- u cant use your comp with out one

9 Measurement Terms and RAM Bits (B) - 0's and 1's lowest form of measurement off or on Nibble - 4 bits or half a Byte Byte (B) - is one Character consisting of 8 binary digits Kilobyte or KB - equals 1024 Characters or consisting of a half page of text Megabyte or MB - equals 1,048,576 Characters or one typical novel Gigabyte or GB - equals 1,073,741,824 characters or 1 thousand novels Terabyte or TB - equals 1,099,511,627,776 characters or entire library Petabyte (PB)-1,024 Terabytes Exabyte (EB)-1,024 Petabytes RAM- Random Access Memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data.

First PC  John Blankenbaker created the first PC  Only 40 machines were ever built and sold. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early The system first sold for US $750. Only around 10 machines are now known to exist worldwide, with various collectors. In 1973, production of the Kenbak-1 stopped as Kenbak Corporation folded.

First Laptop The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795.

10 Important Events In Computer History 1995: Open BSD and Microsoft Windows 95 came up during : Windows NT 4.0 hit the computing market in : 1998 witnessed the release of Windows 98 as well of Solaris : Windows 2000, which hit the markets in 2000, was the first Windows server operating system to drop the 'NT' suffixed to its name. Windows ME, which was sold during this year, was the last operating system in the Windows 9x line. Red Hat Linux 6.2E also came up during : Windows XP was launched and soon gained a wide popularity. Windows XP 64-bit edition followed in : Windows XP Service Pack 1 was released in : witnessed the launch of the Windows 2003 Server as also the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux : Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released in : Windows Vista hit the markets 2008: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 came up in It was also during this very year that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released.

5 More Pieces of Hardware Keyboard: without the keyboard you can’t install an operating system to the PC and you can’t tell the PC what to do. Monitor: displays everything you are doing Mouse: a palm-sized, button-operated pointing device that can be used to move, select, activate, and change items on a computer screen. UPS: All about the UPS, also known as an Uninterruptible Power Supplies or a battery backup. Floppy Disk: a thin, flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored for later retrieval: used mainly with microcomputers.

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