Understanding Computer Components
Understanding Computer Components
Motherboard
Random Access Memory or Access Memory It is the largest plate in the system. A set
Random. While the processor performs its of integrated circuits and electronic chips
operations, stores in the RAM the where the rest of the components are connected in
results. Suppose we are some slots called slots. Many boards
writing a letter on the computer. they come integrated with video cards, sound cards,
We open the program. The data begins to red, modem… If not, they can be purchased.
stored in memory that sends them to easily separate and install.
processor to execute the instructions and
Perform the operations.
3. Processor or CPU
It is the brain of the computer, too.
called Central Processing Unit
(CPU). Responsible for executing operations
mathematics. Remember that computers
With this machine, you can develop they work with binary digits, that's why, to process
5. Reading units digital information is nothing more than performing
tasks that are now part of our
They are devices that read the stored information. different operations with them.
daily life, such asto draft letters or
on CDs, DVDs or on the old floppies, discs of
a resume talking to people 3¼ inches that most of
from other countries, to make budgets, computers no longer incorporate. Another of the
play and evenbrowsing the internet. storage devices that remained
ZIPs are outdated. A kind of
Our computer does this, cartridges that had a special reader plus
larger than a floppy disk, but smaller
processing data to convert it into
than a CD player.
useful information for us.
OUTPUT DEVICES What is the computer? HIGH SCHOOL CENTER
They are used to display the data processed by the A computer is a machine INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL AND
computer. The monitor and the printer are the most electronic device that is designed for
common. perform specific tasks. In many
countries are known as computer or u
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computer, but all these words are
they refer to the same thing.