❤ Chapter 1: Information Technology, The Internet, and You ❤

  ·°♡ Five parts of an information system ♡°·

1. People

2. Procudures

3. Software

4. Hardware

5. Data

      PEOPLE

♡ Most important part of any system

♡ Contact is

  • Direct

  • Indirect

♡ Computer Uses

  • Business & Entertainment

  • Education & Medicine

      SOFTWARE

♡ Software is another name for programs

♡ 2major kinds of software

  • System software

  • Application software

       HARDWARE - types of computers

♡ Supercomputers

♡ Mainframe computers

♡ Minicomputers (also known as mid-range computers)

♡ Microcomputers

  • Desktop

  • Media center system units

  • Notebook or Laptop

  • Netbooks

  • Tablet PC

  • Handheld

      DATA

♡ Raw, unprocessed facts

♡ Processed data becomes information

♡ Stored electronically in files

  • document files

  • worksheet files

  • database files

  • presentation files