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Read Only Memory Vacuum Tube
1,115 words... and and held on magnetic drums, disk packs, or tapes. After they are solved, the results are displayed or printed. The problem is then deleted, or "dumped" to make room for the next problem. With all of these new advances, the computer was becoming easier to use. Also, with the new ferrite coils and other smaller parts, the computer was shrinking very much. Soon they would be affordable and small enough for every household to have one. This all became possible with two simple inventions: The...
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Large Scale Integration Read Only Memory
1,859 wordsA common misconception about computers is that they are smarter than humans. Actually, the degree of a computers intelligence depends on the speed of its ignorance. Todays complex computers are not really intelligent at all. The intelligence is in the people who design them. Therefore, in order to understand the intelligence of computers, one must first look at the history of computers, the way computers handle information, and, finally, the methods of programming the machines. The predecessor t...
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Central Processing Unit Read Only Memory
2,332 wordsBUILDING A COMPUTER With increasing popularity of computer games, and multimedia home PC users often need an unexpensive computer system upgrade. By building a custom computer one is able to combine components, and operating system to provide maximal gaming performance. Computers are often called number manipulators, because of their ability to run millions of mathematical operations per second (White 43). Computers use binary system of numbers, which allows them to operate system of microscopic...
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Cd Rom Drive Read Only Memory
1,557 wordsWhat is the function of BIOS chips? I have often wondered this. How did they come about? How do they work? Yes, BIOS chips have been a bit of a mystery. I will research this and see if I can understand them a bit more by doing so. The ROM BIOS chip transfers information from the keyboard into computer language of zeros and ones. This was the first thing I came across while searching for a true definition of a BIOS chip. The location of this was on the discovery channels page, and it seemed to be...
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World War Ii Read Only Memory
2,262 wordsIntroduction Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people wanted and needed an easier way of calculating and measuring. Through the dreams of Charles Babbage, the computer was born. These new machines could do any regular math more than twice as fast as any human. Sadly, these ideas were not appreciated until almost one hundred years later. In the 1950 s, the idea of computers was brought up again. This is when people finally started crediting Babbage's work. The technology available...
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