BUS 237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Small Form Factor, Flash Memory, Computer Hardware

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Kamal Masri

Document Summary

Why should you care about hardware/software: you, as a business manager, needs to understand how the technology works to integrate it into the bigger picture. Suppose you are the manager of your department at your job. Why do you need to know about information technology: case study: y2k (year 2000) problem. Result of expensive computer memory leading developers to chop off the first 2 digits of the year to save ram and hard drive storage space. Knowing something about where technology has been, can help us understand. What is a computer? where technology is headed: at their most basic level, computers do three things: Accept input (raw data) process data produce output (information) The personal computer system: component 1: the brain behind the computer. Cpu, motherboard, storage, dvd, flash card readers: component 2: output devices. Monitors, printer, speakers (voice: component 3: input devices.