BUS 237 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Local Area Network, Computer Hardware, Cloud Computing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Jie Mein Goh

Document Summary

Understand and apply it to everyday life is a fundamental building block for success. The first commercial computers were available in the 1950s: large, room-sized devices based on now-obsolete vacuum tube technology, were called mainframes and were mainly used by businesses and government. The internet and cellular phones came into wide use during the 1990s after the world. Wide web was invented: local area network (lan) technology, ethernet"s simplicity and popularity3 provided the ability to connect many pcs together. Summary: price and performance advances, small is powerful, the network is the thing. Hardware consists of the physical electronic components and related gadgetry that input, process, output, and store data according to instructions encoded in computer programs or software. Input devices may be one of the two most visible or familiar parts of the computer (output devices being the other): eg.