Task 3 - Some stuffs that I've learned during lectures

These are the stuffs that I have jotted down in Hardware Technology class;

What is a Workstation?

A Workstation is any PC or Laptop that we own. Its an old term of our Personal Computer which we use to work on.

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Types of Floppy?

There are 2 types of Floppy;

1. The big black Floppy (which was used probably around my sister's and Sir Ahmad's generation).
2. Diskette.

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A Computer only knows 0 and 1. We are the ones that give them instruction that actually does what they do for us. A Computer is not smarter than any human.

An 8-bit computer means that the computer can only stores eight 0 and 1. The largest bit currently is 64-bit.

In 1980, MS-DOS appears.

In 1990, Pentium was introduced, during this era then PC has interface and Windows made it first debut as well as Linux in this era of time.

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What is a PC Clone?

PC Clone is a copycat machine. A machine which can do exactly the same things that an original PC can do. Cloning of devices have been done since 1980s.

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64-bit is made for heavy duty workers and hardcore gamer.

32-bit is common in most computer architectural.

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Digital technology works with the help of light.

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ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) is the first digital computer that was developed. (ABC does not stands for Ais Batu Campur, nyaman plang tu)

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The first computer in the world to be programmed with a software as Zuse's computer Z3. It was used in the German aircraft industry during World War II. It was made by Kanrad Zuse.

Task 2 - Hardware Technology

What is Hardware Technology?

Hardware technology is the making, modification, usage and knowledge of computer devices and peripherals

What is Mainframe computer?

A powerful computers use for critical applications and massive data processing used commonly by corporate and government organizations. example is IBM zSeries and System z10 servers.

What is a Minicomputer?

A class of smaller computers that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or Basic. Example is Data General Nova, a 16-bit minicomputer.

What is Supercomputer?

A very large computer with very large computing power and huge RAM. The use of massively parallel processing distinguishes a supercomputer from the others. One supercomputer contains 5800 processor and more than a trillion bytes of RAM. It is mainly used in the sciences of engineering. Examples are Blue Gene and The Cray.

What is Microcomputer?

Microcomputers are the one that is mostly being use nowadays in our generation, it has a microprocessor as its Central Processing Unit(CPU), a memory, and input/output facilities. It is also called as personal computers. The examples are laptop and PC.