Computer

A device that computes, especially a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.

Circuit board

An insulated board on which interconnected circuits and components such as microchips are mounted or etched.

Centrl Procesing Unit (CPU)

is the brains of the computer. Sometimes referred to simply as the central processor, but more commonly called processor, the CPU is where most calculations take place. In terms of computing power, the CPU is the most important element of a computer system.

Biometrics

The science and technology of measuring and analyzing biological data. In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements.

Audio input

is a computer sound card driver

Arithmetic /Logic Unit (ALU)

ne of the many components within a computer processor. The ALU performs mathematical, logical and decision operations in a computer and is the final processing performed by the processor. After the information has been processed by the ALU, it is sent to the computer memory.

HW#1 Parents interview

my mom :OK so the late 70's & early 1980's

there were NO COMPUTERS, NO INTERNET, NO MOBILE PHONES, NO ELECTRONIC HANDHELD GAMES, NO SUPERMARKET HOME DELIVERY.
There was darts though & people actually talked to each other.

we had walkmen instead of Ipods, we had mobile phones but they were big things that looked like bricks not the small things we have today. We had computers in our homes but they were much less powerful text only machines with what we thought was ahirty years ago life was very similar to what it is today except no computers in the home, no internet and no online roll playing games, twitter facebook or any of that stuff, people communicated with each other mainly by telephone (landline) as not everyone had mobile phones, only the more successful businessmen. It would be a while before everyone got a mobile phone and a while longer before text messaging and even longer still before every home had more than one computer.