CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Oled, Laser Printing, Inkjet Printing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

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Process: manipulates, calculates, or organizes that data into information c. output: displays data and information in a form suitable for the user d. storage: serves data and information for later use: data: a representation of a fact, a figure or an idea, to process data into information, computers need to work in a language called binary. Information: data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion language, which consists of two digits 0 and 1 > each o and 1 is a bit > 8 bits=1 byte: each letter of the alphabet, each number and special character consists of a unique combination of 8 bits a. kilobyte: 1000 bytes b. megabyte: 1 million bytes c. gigabyte: 1 billion bytes d. terabytes: 1 trillion bytes e. petabyte: 1000 terabytes, hardware is any part of the computer you can physically touch (motherboard, ram,