CGS 2100 Exam 1 FSU Questions and
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Software - ✔✔instructions that tell a computer what to do
Data Mining - ✔✔the process of searching huge amounts of data with the
hopes of finding a pattern.
Computer Forensics - ✔✔analyzes computer systems with specific
techniques to gather legal evidence
Patient Stimulators - ✔✔full sized mannequins that can speak, breath, and
blink. (help medical trainers practice)
Altair 8800 - ✔✔first personal computer
VisiCalc - ✔✔first spreadsheet program
Wordstar - ✔✔first word processing system
Graphical User Interface (GUI) - ✔✔put digital projections on computer
screens (increased sales)
Mosaic - ✔✔first internet web browser
Pascalene - ✔✔first mechanical calculator
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, Invented by Blaise Pascal
Had four basic functions
Charles Babbage - ✔✔Father of Computing
Binary Language - ✔✔language computers understand (1's and 0's)
Bits/Binary digit - ✔✔number in binary code
1 byte = - ✔✔8 bits
Kilobyte - ✔✔thousand bytes
Megabyte - ✔✔million bytes
Gigabyte - ✔✔one billion bytes
Terabyte - ✔✔one trillion bytes
Hardware - ✔✔part of the computer you can physically touch
Application Software - ✔✔software that we use on computers to let us
complete tasks
System Software - ✔✔allows your computer's hardware and application
software to work together.
Operating System (OS)-most common
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Software - ✔✔instructions that tell a computer what to do
Data Mining - ✔✔the process of searching huge amounts of data with the
hopes of finding a pattern.
Computer Forensics - ✔✔analyzes computer systems with specific
techniques to gather legal evidence
Patient Stimulators - ✔✔full sized mannequins that can speak, breath, and
blink. (help medical trainers practice)
Altair 8800 - ✔✔first personal computer
VisiCalc - ✔✔first spreadsheet program
Wordstar - ✔✔first word processing system
Graphical User Interface (GUI) - ✔✔put digital projections on computer
screens (increased sales)
Mosaic - ✔✔first internet web browser
Pascalene - ✔✔first mechanical calculator
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Invented by Blaise Pascal
Had four basic functions
Charles Babbage - ✔✔Father of Computing
Binary Language - ✔✔language computers understand (1's and 0's)
Bits/Binary digit - ✔✔number in binary code
1 byte = - ✔✔8 bits
Kilobyte - ✔✔thousand bytes
Megabyte - ✔✔million bytes
Gigabyte - ✔✔one billion bytes
Terabyte - ✔✔one trillion bytes
Hardware - ✔✔part of the computer you can physically touch
Application Software - ✔✔software that we use on computers to let us
complete tasks
System Software - ✔✔allows your computer's hardware and application
software to work together.
Operating System (OS)-most common
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