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Information Technology
✓ refers to any technology that helps: produce, manipulate, store,
✓ communicate, and/or disseminate information
Computer
✓ a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts data—raw facts and figures—
and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use
Communications Technology
✓ consists of electromagnetic devices and systems for communicating over any
distance
Virtual
✓ means something that is created, simulated, or carried on by means of a
computer or a computer network
Super Computers
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✓ - fastest and largest available
✓ - can perform more than several quadrillion calculations per second
✓ - used for govt. census, weather forecasting designing aircraft, scientific
projects, etc.
Mainframes
✓ - used in many large businesses
✓ - water-cooled or air-cooled
✓ - used by banks, airlines, colleges, etc.
Workstations
✓ - used for graphics, special effects, & some prof. applications
✓ - usually connected to a network
Microcomputers
✓ used by individuals and aren't necessarily connected to a network
Microcontrollers
✓ found inside appliances and automobiles
Information System
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✓ a combination of people, procedures, software, hardware, data, and the
Internet
Data
✓ The raw facts and figures
Information
✓ Data that has been summarized or otherwise transformed for use in decision
making
Hardware
✓ The machinery and equipment in a computer system
Software
✓ The electronic instructions that tell the computer how to perform a task
Input Operations
✓ What goes into the computer system
Processing Operations
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✓ The manipulation a computer does to transform data into information
Primary Storage
✓ temporary storage for data waiting to be processed
Secondary Storage
✓ permanent storage: media such as hard disk, DVDs, and CDs
Output
✓ What comes out—the results of processing, such as on the screen, printouts,
sound
Communications
✓ An extended operation, with wired or wireless connections data may be input
from a far computer, processed by a remote computer, stored in many different
locations and output is yet another place
input, processing, storage, output, commuications
✓ basic computer operations
Application
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