I see a computer.
It has a list in it.
It can run the list.
It has a 0 and a 1.
A picture has squares.
When it is off, files stay.
Words to know
- list: instructions
- squares: tiny squares
Facts
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Look at a Computer
How Computers Work: How does a computer work?
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Sources
- https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs115/readings/information-representation-files/old_files/how_computer_works.html
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/hardware-1.html
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/software-1.html
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/347
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-bytes.html
- https://csunplugged.org/en/topics/image-representation/
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/image-1-introduction.html
- https://csunplugged.org/en/topics/binary-numbers/
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/273
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956/bardeen/facts/
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/272
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2000/popular-information/
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/analog-digital-3.html
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/281
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/271
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/78
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/274
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/software-2.html
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/269
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/276
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/280
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/311
- https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html
- https://csunplugged.org/en/topics/error-detection-and-correction/
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