This unit provides a brief introduction to computer hardware and software. We have included this unit to help those who are teaching students with no computer background. However, any introductory course in the use of micro-computers is likely to have covered this material already.
Binary notation is introduced here.
Computers in Geography, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. Current reviews and comparisons of different hardware and software are published frequently, particularly for the DOS environment in magazines such as Byte and PC Magazine. Numerous texts are available at various levels of sophistication for operating systems, editors, compilers and common applications programs. Describe the functional differences between databases, spreadsheets and statistical packages. August 30, 1997.