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The document defines what a computer is and describes its key components and functions. A computer is an electronic device that can accept data as input, process that data, and produce output. It consists of both hardware and software. The hardware includes physical parts like the processor, memory, storage devices, and ports. The software includes operating systems and applications. Computers come in many forms to perform various tasks, from desktops and laptops to smartphones, TVs, and appliances.

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Computer Sri

The document defines what a computer is and describes its key components and functions. A computer is an electronic device that can accept data as input, process that data, and produce output. It consists of both hardware and software. The hardware includes physical parts like the processor, memory, storage devices, and ports. The software includes operating systems and applications. Computers come in many forms to perform various tasks, from desktops and laptops to smartphones, TVs, and appliances.

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NAMA : SRI INDAH ANANDA TAMBA

NPM : 19080034

Computer

What Does Computer Mean?

A computer is a machine or device that performs processes, calculations and operations based
on instructions provided by a software or hardware program. It has the ability to accept data
(input), process it, and then produce outputs.

Computers can also store data for later uses in appropriate storage devices, and retrieve
whenever it is necessary

Modern computers are electronic devices used for a variety of purposes ranging from browsing
the web, writing documents, editing videos, creating applications, playing video games, etc.

They are designed to execute applications and provide a variety of solutions by combining
integrated hardware and software components.
Techopedia Explains Computer

The earliest digital electronic device that could be defined as the first modern computer is the
Colossus. Built in 1943-44, the Colossus was devised to crack the Lorenz SZ 40/42, a German
encryption machine used to support military communications during World War II

The device used 2,400 vacuum tubes to perform multiple boolean logical operations to decode
encrypted data.

Modern computers come in all shapes and sizes to perform a broad range of different
functions. Although the first ones that come to mind are desktop and laptop computers, many
other less-assuming devices — such as grocery scanners, ATMs, and smart TVs — are
computers as well

The diffusion of smartphones, game consoles, wearables, and smart appliances made
computers much more readily available in our daily life.

A computer is made up of multiple parts and components that facilitate user functionality.

A computer has two primary categories:

Hardware

Physical structure that houses a computer's processor, memory, storage, communication ports
and peripheral devices. Each of these components (called devices) have a different purpose,
which may be either accepting inputs, storing data or sending outputs.

For example, a mouse and a microphone are input devices used to record user activities and
transform them into data that is transmitted to the system unit. A hard disk is a storage unit
where data is stored and accessed by other devices.
A monitor or a speaker are output devices that transform processed data into (respectively)
video and audio signals

Usually, the core components that represent the bare minimum that allow a computer to
function are:

Processor (CPU)

The component that processes and executes inputs received from hardware and software

Motherboard

A mainboard that provides basic connection between all the other hardware components and
devices (internal and external).

Memory (RAM)

A temporary data storage space that stores the information the CPU is actively using.

Storage device

A storage device where data is stored on a permanent basis. It’s slower but less volatile than
the RAM.

Power supply unit

That’s pretty self-explanatory: without power, no electronic device can work!

Software
All parts of a computer that are not strictly physical, such as data, programs, applications,
protocols, etc., are broadly defined as “software.” Although software has no material form, it is
no less critical to receive information, encode, store and process it

Computer software includes all executable and non-executable data, such as documents, digital
media, libraries, and online information. A computer’s operating system (OS) and all its
applications are software as well.

A computer works with software programs that are sent to its underlying hardware architecture
for reading, interpretation and execution.

Computers are classified according to computing power, capacity, size, mobility and other
factors, as personal computers (PC), desktop computers, laptop computers, minicomputers,
handheld computers and devices, mainframes or supercomputers.

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