The history of computing
by joe scott
What is a computer?
a cumputer is a counting machine, like a calculater, it reads codes of 1s and 0s like 101001111110. It then translates the code and finds out infomation and displays it on the screen.
the first computer
The first computers were made in 1940 and 1945 by alan turing. they were the size of a large room. consuming as much power as several hundred modern computers. In this era computers were used for decoding nazi codes.
The Internet
the internet is all o the computers connected together so you can do emails and other things that include connecting to other computers
keyboard
You type on the keys and writing comes up on the screen.
monitor or screen
Shows all infomation on the screen.
mother board
All the components plug into it.
optical drive
You can put dvds and cds into it and it reads them.
Cpu
The central processing unit is the brains of the computer and it processes all the infomation.
Hard drive
The hard drive stores the data in your computer.
Ram
The RAM is the memory of the computer.
The printer
The printer can print word, pulisher and power point documents
Touch screen
When the screen is touched it senses where it has been touch on screen.