COMM 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Data Recovery, Vertical Market, Horizontal Market
27 Sep 2013
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Understanding & applying it to everyday life is a fundamental building block for success. The first computers were financed by the us military. The term bug came to be when a moth was found in a computer and it was debugged : term is now used to describe the process of fixing computer program problems. Many large companies have mainframes designed for fast processing/massive storage. People wanted smaller/compact computers developed microprocessors. Early microcomputers didn"t have screens/monitors and didn"t come with any software. Lan allowed many pc"s to connect together providing shared access to data, printers . This was followed by the wide area network (wan) giving access to the worldwide network of computers, email, web browser, etc. Decreases in cost lead to innovation and the above technologies became commonplace and were adopted by large groups of people in na and eur.
