Monday, October 17, 2011

Input & Output

The terms “input” and “output” are used both as verbs to describe the process of entering or displaying the data, and as nouns referring to the data itself entered into or displayed by the computer.
Input: Mouse, Keyboard, Printer, Ext.
Output: Printer also, Sound, Monitor.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs Short Time Line

1955: Stephen Paul Jobs is born on Feb. 24.
1972: Jobs enrolls at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester.
1974: Jobs works for video game maker Atari and attends meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak, a high school friend who was a few years older
1975: Jobs and Wozniak attend Homebrew Computer Club meetings
1976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fool's Day
2001: The first iPod goes on sale, as do computers with OS X, the modern Mac operating system based on Next software. Apple also releases iTunes software.
2003: Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99 cents each, giving people a convenient way to buy music legally online. It sells 1 million songs in the first week.
2010: Apple sells 15 million of its newest gadget, the iPad, in nine months, giving rise to a new category of modern touch-screen tablet computers.
Oct. 5, 2011: Jobs dies at 56

Steve Jobs. 1955-2011

Steve Jobs, chief and executive officer of Apple Inc. died October 5, 2011 of pancreatic cancer. He was only 56 years old. He was one of the richest men alive. He created things I use in my daily life and changed it drastically. He created the Imac computer, the Ipod, the Ipad, and the Iphone. He created the first at home computer that cost less then 2,000 dollars. He was an extremely smart man.