Microsoft Office 2000

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Microsoft Office 2000

• History of the PC

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ENIAC

• Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
• Started in 1939
• Developed to compute World War II ballistic
  missile firing tables
• No electronic computers were being applied to
  commercial problems until about 1951
• ENIAC was a grotesque monster weighing over
  thirty tons

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Bits Bytes

• Bit 0 or 1, the lowest piece of information
  that a computer understands
• Byte 8 Bits, essentially one character of
  information
• Kilobyte 1024 Bytes, approx 1000 Bytes
• Megabyte 1000 Kilobytes, approx 1 million Bytes
• Gigabyte 1000 Megabytes, approx 1 billion Bytes
• Terabyte 1000 Gigabytes, approx 1 trillion Bytes

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Apple IIe

• Introduced in January 1983 selling for 1395
• 64K RAM built in, expandable to 128K RAM
• Favorite among businesses, schools, and home
  computer users
• Discontinued in November 1993

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MS-DOS

• Text Based Language
• Cryptic, difficult to learn
• Not flexible

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IBM PC

• Introduced in August 1981
• 16K RAM built in
• Monochrome (green on black) screen
• IBM asked a small company to write the operating
  system Microsoft --- created MS-DOS
• IBM ran the business community up to the late
  1980s

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Compaq Portable

• Introduced in 1983
• 128K RAM built in
• Monochrome screen
• Weighed 34 pounds, called the luggable

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IBM AT

• Introduced in 1984
• 512K RAM built in, color screen
• Hard drive of 20mb
• Started the keyboard that is used today
• MS-DOS based computer

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PC and Windows Development

• PC 286
• PC 386
• PC 486
• Pentium
• Pentium II, III
• Pentium IV

• MS-DOS
• Windows 3.1
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP

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Modern IBM PC

• 512mb RAM built in, color flat screen monitor,
  speakers
• Hard drive of 40gb , 80gb, 120gb
• CD-ROM for reading / writing
• Operates many different peripheral devices
  camera, scanner, printer
• Runs Windows XP

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Portable Computing

• 256mb RAM built in, 15 color screen, speakers
• Hard drive of 40gb
• DVD/CD for reading / writing, watching movies,
  playing music
• Operates many different peripheral devices
  camera, scanner, printer
• Weighs 7.5 lbs
• Runs Windows XP

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Windows Desktop
Icon
Wallpaper
Taskbar
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Windows Taskbar
Start button
Clock
System Tray
Active Programs