BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Year 2000 Problem, Flickr, Computer Network

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

Document Summary

The early computers was large, complex, and expensive and only ran one program at a time. Mainframe - the first digital computing machine used in business and government. Microcomputer - smaller than mainframes, the precursor to personal computers. Ethernet was a set of rules, or protocols, enabling devices to communicate and share information. The rise of the internet and the use of websites such as amazon and flickr also brought in a movement away from privately owned technology toward shared or virtual storage and computing services called cloud computing. Cloud computing promises flexible, secure, and scalable low fixed cost computing that is available anywhere, anyone, and on any device. Hardware - electronic components and related gadgetry that input, process, output, store, and communicate data according to instructions encoded in computer programs or software. Input devices - hardware devices that attach to a computer. I. e. keyboards, mouse, document scanners, and barcode (universal product.