Thursday, September 30, 2010

Infrastructure 4.1

We use computers as a source of communication. Something that is key in using the computers is the keyboard. The keyboard is a type of input device that is used to enter information into the computer. When we type the information onto the keyboard it goes through the input technology such as the computer in general. After that it goes through the processing device that changes it from the input into the output. The output technology delivers the information to users in a usable format. Meaning that if we tell the computer to play a certain song, the output technology would be the speakers where you hear the song come out of. Machine language is the language that the computer understands. Meaning when you type a letter, it reads it as numbers. Each letter has a number that the computer knows and thats how we see it as letters. The different numbers that the computer knows are in different binary codes such as, bits, bytes etc. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, that is the process of the information how we see it on the computer, then to the numbers that are in bits and the ASCII binary code, and then how its stored and manipulated inside the computer. Just as it has done the whole time I have been writing this blog.

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