Labels:bulletin board | computer | earth | hakham | keyboard | monitor | rock | sky | tv OCR: CHAPTER SECTION Digital Devices WHETHER YOU REALIZE 17 or not you already know a lot about the devices that fuel the digital revolution. You've picked up information from commercials and news articles from books and movies, from conversations and correspondence -perhaps even from using variety of digital devices and trying to figure out why they don't always work! The quintessential digi- tal device is the computer. Section provides an overview that's designed to help you start organizing what you know about digital devices, beginning with computers COMPUTER BASICS What computer? The word computer has been part of the English language since 1646; but if you look in a dictionary printed before 1940 you might be surprised to find computer defined as person who performs calculations! Prior to ...
