Introduction to Computer Systems

• Computing
• Foundation Degree

Computer & Peripherals

Monitor - A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form. 

Keyboard - A computer keyboard is an input device used to enter characters and functions into the computer system by pressing buttons, or keys.

Mouse - a small device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position. 

System Unit - A system unit is the main box-like structure of a computer with all the essential components needed for the computer to work.

What is a computer?

Blaise Pascal

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

Joseph-Marie Jacquard

Charles Babbage 

Lady Augusta Ada

What is John Napier best known for?

1. Inventing the telescope
2. Discovering gravity
3. Inventing calculus
4. Inventing logarithms

Bill Gates

At the age of 13 Bill Gates became interested in programming computers.

He sold a computer he built and programmed to Seattle to allow them to count their city traffic when he was still a teenager.

He talked IBM into letting Microsoft make the operating system and Gates proceeded to make a fortune from MS-DOS. This led onto the Windows we now know and love.

What operating system did Bill Gates make a fortune from?

1. Linux
2. MacOS
3. Windows 95
4. MS-DOS

What did Bill Gates sell to Seattle as a teenager?

1. a television
2. a bicycle
3. a car
4. a computer he built and programmed

Who is this person and what is he famous for?

Who is often credited as the "Father of Computers"?

1. Bill Gates
2. Alan Turing
3. Charles Babbage
4. Steve Jobs

In what year was the first electronic general-purpose computer, ENIAC completed

1. 1946
2. 1950
3. 1960
4. 1935

Which computer hardware company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976?

1. IBM
2. Microsoft
3. Intel
4. Apple

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