Technology

Input | Processor technology | Output technology | Software |

Input:

• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Trackball
• Trackpad
• Light pen
• Touch screen
• Audio
• Video (Camera)
• Bar code scanner
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
• Page Scanner

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Processor technology

Buzzwords:

• Plug and Play
• random access memory (RAM)
• Cache memory
• read-only memory (ROM)
• hard disks
• integrated drive electronics (IDE)
• enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE)
• small computer serial interface (SCSI - pronounced "scuzzy"
• "Zip" drive
• CD-ROM
• Magnetic tape
• Magnetic disk
• Optical disk
• CD-RW

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Output technology

• impact printers (Dot matrix printers)
• non-impact printers
  • Ink jet printers
  • laser printer
• Soft copy output (screen or video display)

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Software

• systems software
  • operating system (unix, openVMS, System 7, Windows 95/NT,...)
  • Utility programs
  • language translators
    • Assemblers
    • ,interpreters
    • compilers
• Debuggers
• applications software
  • General purpose applications software
    • Word processing
    • Spreadsheet
    • Database software
    • Presentation Graphics
    • Communications software
  • Special purpose applications software
    • Personal finances tracking
    • Mid-range packages (Macola, SBT, etc.)
    • High-end software (SAP, BAAN, PeopleSoft, ORACLE Financials)

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Updated on September 15, 1997 by Jagdish S. Gangolly.