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COMPUTER BASICS
Seema SirpalDelhi University Computer Centre
 
What is a Computer?
 An electronic device that stores, retrieves,and processes data, and can beprogrammed with instructions. Acomputer is composed of hardware andsoftware, and can exist in a variety of sizes and configurations.
 
Hardware & Software
The term hardware refers to the physicalcomponents of your computer such as thesystem unit, mouse, keyboard, monitor etc.The software is the instructions that makesthe computer work. Software is held eitheron your computers hard disk, CD-ROM,DVD or on a diskette (floppy disk) and isloaded (i.e. copied) from the disk into thecomputers RAM (Random Access Memory),as and when required.
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