TEXT I

READ THIS TEXT CAREFULLY THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW!

COMPUTER HARDWARE

Understanding of hardware is one component of a computer that the nature of his instrument can
be seen and touched, directly or in the form of real, which serves to support the computerization process.

Hardware can work based on predetermined commands available to him, or what is also referred
to by the term instruction set. With the commands that can be understood by the hardware, then the
hardware can perform a variety of activities that have been determined by the command.

Physically, the computer consists of several components that constitute a system. System are the
components that work together to form a union. If one component is not working, will result in non-
functioning of existing processes with a good computer. Component is included in the category of
computer hardware elements (hardware).

Based on the function, the computer hardware is divided into:

1. Input divice (exp.memory).
2. Process device
3. Output device
4. Backing Storage
5. Periferal

TASK I
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS!
1. What the Understanding of hardware is?
2. Based on what can hardware work?
3. What happen if one of the components is not working?

TASK III
TEXT DISCUSSION
1. Hardware is ……….
2. The commands can be understood by the hardware if …….
3. Physically, the computer consists of several …….

TASK IV
FILL IN THE BLANK WITHWORDS THAT YOU FIND OUT IN THE TEXT ABOVE.
1. A CD-i player is a stand-alone system that includes a CPU, …………….…., and an integrated
operating system..
2. An application is a type of ………………………..………….. software.
3. A computer program consists of many ……..…………. that tell a computer what to do.
4. The term software was first used in the late 1960s to show the difference from computer ………..
……….., which are the fixed parts of a machine.
5. Each motherboard …………………………… only a certain range of CPU types

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