HARDWARE

HARDWARE

1. physical parts of a computer and related devices (all the parts you can physically touch).

2. Internal components

   • Motherboard
     • main circuit board of a computer. It holds the CPU, the memory chips and various connections
   • Video card
     • a circuit board that generates video output to the monitor. Video cards have their own processor and memory.
   • Sound card
     • a circuit board that deals with the input and output of the sound
   • Internal memory
     • is the area where the computer stores or remembers data.
       • RAM
         • It permits reading and writing.
       • ROM
         • Is short for Read Only Memory.
   • Microprocessor
     • Brain of the computer
   • Backing storage
     • Save information. Can be external and internal storage units
   • Main ports & connectors
     • Ports
       • USB
     • Connectors
       • Network / graphic

3. External components

   • Monitor
   • Keyboard
   • Mouse
   • Webcam
   • . . .

4. COMPUTER

   • SOFTWARE
     • -Computer’s logical support -It hands control of the computer to operating system
     • structure of information
       • Hard disks consist of: boot sector artitions can be: - primary (containing OS) or extended artitions. They can be: primary (containing OS) or extended ach that is divided into: one or more logical partition
       • File system: the way files are stored, organised and managed. - Each OS uses its own file systems, - For the partition and its drives to be usable, it must first be assigned a file system. This operation is called formatting.
     • FILES AND FOLDERS
       • File: block of data that is stored under one name (filename) Files can be executable or non-executable.