Posted: December 4th, 2013
PC
STUDY (cite your sources):
1. Give a short history of the personal computer. Explain how the PC innovation affected
society, science and technology (5001000 words).
2. Explain the following (5001000 words):
○ Five major components of a PC.
○ How text, audio, image, and video data stored in a computer’s memory.
○ How data compression works and how compression affects quality (fidelity).
○ What are software applications? How are they developed?
○ Any three specialized programming languages and their uses.
○ How antivirus and software firewalls protect information stored on a PC.