Computer Basics By Jasonpierce

Computer Basics By Jasonpierce - Transcript

By Jason Pierce

1 Never have food or drink around a computer 2 Never turn off a computer without a shutdown process 3 Never force a disk into a computer 4 Never use a magnet around a computer 5 Never turn off a computer in the middle of a program 6 Never turn a computer on and off without waiting 60 seconds 7 Turn the computer off before connecting new hardware

Inside the computer there are three types of ports serial parallel and PS2 The serial port can be used to connect printers zip drives and video capture

There are two types of plugs male and female The male plug has the prickly connectors to put in the female The female plug has the holes where the male can connect to the plug

There are two types of wonderful computers

MAC for Macintosh and PC for IBM compatible

The A drive or the disk drive is the place where you insert your disk It would be located right there The A drive or disk drive is located on the base of the computer

A cronyms are short words that have long EX meanings ROM Read Only Memory

There are 1000 Kilobytes in a megabyte 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte and 1000 gigabytes in a terabyte

The first thing you need to do when you clean a mouse is to take the ball out of the mouse You need to lightly clean with a Q tip dipped in alcohol You will see 2 silver rollers you will lightly touch the rollers with the Q tip

When you get through cleaning the rollers you need to clean the rest of the inside the same way

What I Learned
I learned that the inside of a computer is emptier than it really looks I also learned to never force a disk into a computer

That is all of my presentation

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