ADMS 2511 Chapter Notes -Wrinkle, Trackball, Static Random-Access Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: Cristobal Sanchez- Rodriguez

Document Summary

Decisions about hardware focus on three interrelated factors: appropriateness for the task, speed and cost. Advantageous to understand the basics about hardware. Regardless of your major you will be using hardware throughout your career. You will have input concerning the hardware you are using, such as whether it is performing adequately for your needs, an dif not what the problems are that you are having with it and many other concerns. You will also have input into decisions such as when your financial area or organization upgrades its hardware. The budget for hardware sometimes is allocated to functional areas or departments, meaning that you might be making hardware decisions yourself. Hardware: physical equipment used for the input, processing, output and storage activities of a computer system. Central processing unit (cpu): manipulates the data and controls the tasks performed by the other compnents. Secondary storage: external to the cpu, stores data and programs for future use.