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  2. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

  3. Computer hardware - Wikipedia

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    Basic hardware components of a personal computer, including a monitor, a motherboard, a CPU, a RAM, two expansion cards, a power supply, an optical disc drive, a hard disk drive, a keyboard and a mouse Inside a custom-built computer: power supply at the bottom has its own cooling fan

  4. BASIC - Wikipedia

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    As the popularity of BASIC grew in this period, computer magazines published complete source code in BASIC for video games, utilities, and other programs. Given BASIC's straightforward nature, it was a simple matter to type in the code from the magazine and execute the program. Different magazines were published featuring programs for specific ...

  5. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    BINAC—Binary Automatic Computer; BIND—Berkeley Internet Name Domain; BIOS—Basic Input Output System; BJT—Bipolar Junction Transistor; bit—binary digit; Blob—Binary large object; Blog—Web Log; BMP—Basic Multilingual Plane; BNC—Baby Neill Constant; BOINC—Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing; BOM—Byte Order Mark

  6. Outline of computers - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computers: . Computers – programmable machines designed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations.

  7. List of computers with on-board BASIC - Wikipedia

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    BASICs with Bitwise Ops use -1 as true and the AND and OR operators perform a bitwise operation on the arguments.. FOR/NEXT skip means that body of the loop is skipped if the initial value of the loop times the sign of the step exceeds the final value times the sign of the step (such as 2 TO 1 STEP 1 or 1 TO 2 STEP -1).

  8. Personal computer - Wikipedia

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    A personal computer, often referred to as a PC or simply computer, is a computer designed for individual use. [1] It is typically used for tasks such as word processing, internet browsing, email, multimedia playback, and gaming. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician.

  9. Video - Wikipedia

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    Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. [1] Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems, which, in turn, were replaced by flat-panel displays of several types.