CONTENS

 

ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ

 

Unit 1. History of computers

Unit 2. What is a computer?

Unit 3. Computer applications

Unit 4. Information, machine words, instructions, addresses and reasonable operations

Unit 5. Kinds of computers

Unit 6. Input and output devices

Unit 7. The central processing unit and arithmetical logical unit.(CPU and ALU)

Unit. 8 Computer memory

Unit 9. Application programs

Unit 10. Programming languages

 

TEXTS FOR READING AND TRANSLATION

Text 1. Scanners. Dynamic Pro 30: The Compute Scanning System

Text 2. Scanners. Scan a line at a time

Text 3. HP office jet: Desktop Triple-Play Peripheral

Text 4. Pointing Devices. Glide Point: Finger Navigation. Traveling executive nightmare number 37

Text 5. Color Printers

Text 6. Microsoft Natural Keyboards

Text 7. Pentium Notebooks

Text 8. CMOS Memory

Text 9. Delphi: a Promise of Power

Lexical test

 

TEXTS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING

Text 1. Phones to the Fore

Text 2. Taking Democracy into the Digital Age

Text 3. Online World Adds a New Dimension (Part I)

Text 4. Online World Adds a New Dimension (Part II)

Text 5. Computer Games

Text 6. Business Keen to Help Pay for New Scientific Network

 

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