MISY160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Smartphone, Icloud, Kilobyte

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MISY160
• Professor: Ryan Rodalunas

Document Summary

Process: manipulates, calculates, or organizes data into information. Output: displays data and information suitable for the user. Storage: saves data and information for later use. Input data processing data into information output information. Understanding your computer: bits and bytes the language of computers . Different measures of bytes for larger data. Ex: kilobyte (kb), megabyte (mb), gigabyte, terabyte, etc. Hardware: any part of the computer you can touch. Software: set of computer programs that enables hardware to perform tasks. Application software: set of programs to carry out tasks. System software: set of programs that enables hardware and application software to work together. Mainframe: large, expensive, usually used in businesses. Input devices: enables you to input data and instructions. Keyboards, mice, game controllers, microphone, scanner, camera, stylus, etc. Output devices: sends processed data out of the computer (text, pictures, sounds, videos) Monitors: liquid crystal display (lcd) or light-emitting diode (led) or organic light-emitting diode (oled)