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    Sep 12, 2009, 02:37 PM
    How computers work
    Explain computers are able to take words entered on a keyboard translate them into digital information.
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    Sep 12, 2009, 04:55 PM

    I'd like to take you back to the early days of computers and ASCII.
    This was a code that encoded characters into 8 binary digits.

    There were no fonts, languages, sizes etc. Just basic encoding.

    ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Oct 7, 2009, 11:44 PM

    Sir
    Computers are digital electronics that accepts data ,process , store and retrive it .the data first converted to binary digit (bit ).this bits are 0 & 1 ,which understandable by the computer.
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    Oct 8, 2009, 01:04 AM

    A computer is nothing more than a series of switches. Each switch has two states; on and off. This is represented using the binary numbering system where 0 = off and 1 = on. Each switch is referred to as a bit.

    There is then software that reads the bits and translates them into instructions that the CPU processes. Those instructions may be simply to display a character on the keyboard or to perform some calculation or other action.
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