INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION 1
Compiled By: RONKY F. DOH
(aka: ronky biggy diggy daddy igp)

FU DAME TALS OF COMPUTERS We are living in an information age dependent upon digital information. Digital information is electronic information, the result of computer processing. Every type of job relies upon getting information, using it, managing it, and relaying information to others. Computers enable the efficient processing and storage of information. Do not think of a computer merely as the machine with the keyboard and the mouse, although that might be true for some types of computers. Embedded computers may be inside your household appliances, the video cassette recorder, the automobile, planes, trains, power plants, water purification plants, calculators, and even inside a few toys. These embedded computers are very small. They affect our lives each day. Why, even modern traffic lights operate with computers. They are all around us. Think of additional ways in which computers affect our lives each day. Every organization somehow use(s) a computer to run the organization. Some of the places are hospitals, schools, fire department, banks, stores or supermarkets, stock exchange, police department, insurance companies, transport companies, and government agencies etc. What is a computer? A computer is many things to many people, depending on what it is being used for. At one time the computer can be a machine which processes the payroll, then it can be a machine which tabulates students’ grades, then a machine which stimulates the loading on a bridge, then it processes insurance policies, then it plays chess, and so on. It is important to note that all the above tasks, and many more, can be performed by the same computer. Definition: A computer is an electronic device that performs four functions: it inputs data (getting information into the machine); it