The material on which programs and data are recorded, including disks, tape, CD's. The analogous media for written language is paper. Optical Media CD ROM Software is the computer coded instructions, or programs, given to the computer. The instructions tell the computer what to do.
Software is analogous to the meaning of the words written on a page.
It is classified into two broad categories. The information entered by the user or created by the system. This includes documents like progress notes, numbers such as lab results, spreadsheets. It is recorded on the physical media. The desktop computers, server computers that are interconnected by a series of cables or by wireless transmitters, not unlike the human nervous system, or telephone system.