Functions of Computers
This function is the entering of data into a computer.
What is Input?
The physical parts of the computer system
What is Hardware?
This function involves the CPU to go out and gather the code.
What is Fetch?
The main device that a computer uses to store information.
What is a Hard Drive?
Some examples of this function include: the monitor, printer, and speaker.
What is Output?
The "Brains" of the computer.
What is the microprocessor?
This function involves the CPU sending the results of the instructions to the proper memory storage.
What is Store?
A portable device allowing for the storage of computer data.
What is Removable Media?
This function includes any device on which information is stored.
What is Storage?
The capturing, storing, update and retrieving of data.
What is Information Processing?
This function requires the CPU to interpret the instructions or convert them into the computer language that it understand.
What is Decode?
This storage type used laser light to read the stored data.
What is an Optical Disc?
This function involves the manipulation of data by a microprocessor or embedded processor.
What is Processing?
The programs and data/instructions that make computer hardware function.
What is software?
This function allows the CPU to process the instructions and send the results.
What is Execute?
The temporary memory that is available on a computer; erased when the computer is powered off
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
A touchscreen monitor is an example of this/these.
A chip designed with a specific set of instructions (pre-programmed). Example: TV Remote.
What is an Embedded Processor?
Major manufacturer of Computer Chips.
Who is Intel?
A system's permanent, stored instructions which are never changed; installed by the manufacturer.
What is ROM (Read Only Memory)?