Saturday, March 19, 2011

So what is a computer anyway? - 2ndgen

Hello, and welcome to 2ndgen! This is article 1, so happy cut-the-red-ribbon day? I don't know. Something like that! Anyway, let's move on to the post!

So. We know there are these things called computers. Exactly what are they anyway?

Well, to start, you're using one.

Computers are really complex machines. Instead of using gears or something, they use wires and electrical impulses. At the lowest level, they're zeroz and ones. Binary. Zero represents no impulse, and one represents an impulse. But we're not going to get into that stuff - we're more interested in what that means for us. You can think of a computer as a really fancy extensible calculator. Only one that can do a lot more than process numbers.

Computers are a collection of hardware (computer chips), and software.

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