How a computer works?
learn what is in a computer today!
The mother board.
The mother is the heart of the computer. Every thing in the computer either touches the mother board or is linked together by wires or cables. Everything is connected to it. Every cable and graphics card.
Other cool things in the computer
Ram
The ram is the storage on the computer. This hold all of the data.
Hard drive
The hard drive is the memory on the computer also known as the data bank. This is were all the files are kept.
Graphics card
The graphics card is quite obviously the graphics. Good gamer's have lots of graphics cards.
Solid state drive
This is like the hard drive but it is more like a USB. It still holds all the memory and in some modern copters this can be quicker than the had drive.
monitor
The monitor is not the computer but just a screen. Some modern computers have the computer built in to the monitor.
Input/output
The inputs and outputs are the add on's to the computer.
touch screen
Touch screen are a new thing that is an added addition to the computer. It makes the computer more like a tablet.
Optical drive
It is what plays disks on the computer.
CPU
It is the central processing unit.
Operating systems/ other software
This is the company that makes the comuter
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, pioneering computer scientist, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
The four generations of computers
The four generations of computers are four different types of computer from the earliest to the latest. Like the iPad 1 to the iPad air 2. Like the iPod 1 to the iPod 5th generation.