CHEM 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Microprocessor, Starflight, Machine Code

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 1030
• Professor: Ria Yngard

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Cis105 - lecture 6 - inside the computer (mccarthy) Think about everything that goes into buying a car. You may not know how it works, especially when it seems to work every time. Example: you have to buy 1,400 tablets for your sales force. Which do you pick? ipad is a consumption device (mostly for facebook, netflix, etc. ) Surface is a creation device (can be used as an actual computer, while also being a good consumption device. ) Main body of the computer is called a system unit. Main part of the computer is the motherboard. Power supply (called psu on the midterm), cooling fan, disk drive, primary memory, secondary memory, expansion cards, etc. Moore"s law says it will be irrelevant in 18 months and the cloud is the future of storage. Sometimes called a system board or logic board (terms for. Printed circuit board (pcb) replaces loose wiring, reduced size, mode of non-conductive plastic.