Performing Computer
Operations
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2 Occupational Health and Safety
(OHS)
a cross-disciplinary area concerned with
protecting the safety, health and welfare of
people engaged in work or employment
Knowing OHS is essential to minimize the
hazards and risks not only to students,
trainers and other people within the training
institution but others who will be affected.
3 Occupational Health and Safety
(OHS)
The goal of all OHS programs is to foster
a safe work environment. As a secondary
effect, OHS may also protect co-workers,
family members, employers, customers,
supplies, nearby communities, and other
members of the public who are impacted
by the workplace environment
4 Occupational health as stated in
Wikipedia, aims at:
The promotion and maintenance of
the highest degree of physical,
mental and social well-being of
workers in all occupations;
The prevention among workers of
departures from health caused by
their working conditions;
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The protection of workers in their employment
from risks resulting from factors adverse to
health;
The placing and maintenance of the worker in
an occupational environment adapted to his
physiological and psychological capabilities;
and
The adaptation of work to man and each man
to his job.
6 Reasons for occupational safety
and standards are:
Moral – and employee should not have to
risk injury at work, nor should others
associated with the work environment.
Economic – many governments realize
that poor occupational safety and health
performance results in cost to state
Legal – OHS requirements maybe
reinforced in civil law and/or criminal law
7 Objective of the OHS standard
To protect working man against the
dangers of injury, sickness or death
through safe and healthful working
conditions, thereby assuring the
conservation of valuable manpower
resources and the prevention of loss or
damage to lives and properties.
8 COMPUTER
is a machine which manipulates data
according to a list of instructions which
makes it an ideal example of a data
processing system.
9 ADVANTAGES
Searching of information
Online businesses and easy transaction
Instant communication
Storage of vast amounts of information
Fast development of technology of all
kinds.
10 DISADVANTAGES
Leads exposure of sensitive information
to kids
Wastes of time and distraction
Greater complexity of life
Generates a lot of extra work
Some people think we are becoming
deskilled
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CLASSES OF
COMPUTERS
12 ANALOG
spelt analogue in British English) is a
form of computer that uses continuous
physical phenomena such as electrical,
mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to
model the problem being solved.
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ANALOG COMPUTER
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CALCULATOR
is a device for performing
mathematical calculations,
distinguished from a computer
by having a limited problem
solving ability and an
interface optimized for
interactive calculation rather
than programming.
abacus
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Charles
Babbage
began
developing
what would
be the first
mechanical
computer. Analytical Engine
1833
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DESKTOP
• is a personal computer (PC) in
a form intended for regular use
at a single location, as opposed
to a mobile laptop or portable
computer
17 DESKTOP REPLACEMENT
is a personal
computer that
provides the full
capabilities of a
desktop computer
while remaining
mobile.
18 EMBEDDED
is a special-purpose
computer system
designed to perform
one or a few
dedicated functions,
often with real-time
computing constraints
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LAPTOP
• is a personal computer designed for
mobile use that is small enough to sit on
one's lap.
MAINFRAME
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is a computer with a microprocessor as its
central processing unit
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MINICOMPUTER
(colloquially, mini) is a class of
multi-user computers that lies in
the middle range of the computing
spectrum, in between the largest
multi-user systems (mainframe
computers) and the smallest single-
user systems (microcomputers or
personal computers).
MICROCOMPUTER
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is a computer with a
microprocessor as its central
processing unit. Another general
characteristic of these computers
is that they occupy physically
small amounts of space when
compared to mainframe and
minicomputers
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PERSONAL COMPUTER
is any general-purpose computer whose
original sales price, size, and capabilities
make it useful for individuals, and which
is intended to be operated directly by an
end user, with no intervening computer
operator.
PORTABLE
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is a computer that is designed
to be moved from one place to
another and includes a display
and keyboard
PDA’s (Personal Digital Assistant)
• is a handheld computer, also known as a
palmtop computer
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PLC Programmable Logic Controller
is a digital computer used for
automation of electromechanical
processes, such as control of
machinery on factory assembly lines,
control of amusement rides, or
control of lighting fixtures
SERVER
• computer program that provides services to other
computer programs (and their users), in the same
or other computer
26 SUPER-COMPUTER
is a computer that is at the frontline of current
processing capacity, particularly speed of
calculation.
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TABLET PC
is a laptop or slate-shaped mobile
computer, equipped with a touch screen or
graphics tablet/screen hybrid technology
which allows the user to operate the
computer with a stylus or digital pen, or a
fingertip, instead of a keyboard or mouse.
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VIDEO GAME CONSOLE
is an interactive entertainment computer or
electronic device that produces a video
display signal which can be used with a
display device (a television, monitor, etc.)
to display a video game.
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WORKSTATION
is a high-end microcomputer
designed for technical or scientific
applications. Intended primarily to
be used by one person at a time,
they are commonly connected to a
local area network and run multi-
user operating systems
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TERMINALS
are handheld devices that are used to record or
capture data away from the mainframe computer
that they are linked to
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CLASSIFICATION OF DEVICES
Input Devices
Output Devices
Storage Devices
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Input Devices
Any devices or peripherals used to
provide data and controls signals to
an information processing system
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KEYBOARD
-Primary input device of most computer systems
-designed to enter text, characters and other
commands into the computer.
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TYPES OF KEYBOARD
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ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY
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DIN (Deutsche Industrial Normale) -
is a series of uniformity standards
developed in Germany, which apply
to commonly manufactured items.
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42 INFRARED/ IR KEYBOARD
defines physical specifications communications
protocol standards for the short-range exchange
of data over infrared light
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is a wireless protocol utilizing short-range
communications technology facilitating data
transmission over short distances from fixed and/or
mobile devices
MOUSE
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pointing device that lets you move the
cursor or pointer on the screen easier
TECHNOLOGIES: Early Mice
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World’s first trackball
The first mouse
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47 Smaky Mouse
48 Latest Mouse: 3 Basic Types
1. Mechanical Mouse
has a rubber or metal ball on its underside and it can roll in every
direction
49 How do it works?
Sensors within the mouse, which are mechanical, detect
the direction in which the ball is moving and moves the
pointer on the screen in the same direction. A mouse pad
should be used under the mouse to run on.
50 2. Optomechanical
the same as the mechanical mouse except that it
uses optical sensors to the motion of the ball
3. Optical
• uses a laser for detecting the mouse's movement
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OPTICAL MOUSE CHIP
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MOUSE INTERFACES
PS2 MOUSE
USB MOUSE
IR MOUSE
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BLUETOOTH MOUSE
57 Image Scanners
converts any images into electronics form by
shining light onto the image and sensing the
intensity of reflection at every point.
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KINDS OF SCANNERS
1. FLATBED
A type of optical scanner that consists of a
flat surface on which you lay documents
to be scanned and particularly effective for
bound documents.
59 b) HANDHELD SCANNER
A small handheld scanning device used for digitizing
images.
60 DIGITAL CAMERA
A camera that stores images digitally rather than
recording them on film
61 TRACKBALL
a pointing device which look like an upside-
down mouse, activated by resting your thumb on
the exposed ball and your fingers on the button
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PEN OR STYLUS
an electronic gadget used by writing or printing on a
special pad (graphic tablet) or directly on the screen
and can be a pointing device to select commands.
63 JOYSTICKS/STIRRING WHEEL
OR GAMEPAD
a pointing device used mostly for playing games, activates various software
features and generally producing on screen events
64 TOUCH SCREEN
-some are made up of a grid of sensing lines which determines the location
of touch by matching the vertical and horizontal contacts made.
65 TOUCH PAD
graphic tablet that translate each position on the tablet to a specific location
on the screen
66 BAR CODE READER
- emits a light beam (laser) to reflect the bars then detects it to be converted
into numerical digits
67 CARD READER
reads information that has been magnetically encoded,
usually in two tracks (punched card reader)
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OUTPUT DEVICE
is any piece of computer hardware
equipment used to communicate the
results of data processing carried out by
an information processing system (such
as a computer) to the outside world
69 MONITOR
computer peripheral device which is
capable of showing a soft copy or
video output to the user
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PRINTER
is a peripheral which produces a hard
copy (permanent human-readable text
and/or graphics) of documents stored in
electronic form, usually on physical print
media such as paper or transparencies.
Common types:
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Laser printers
LED printers
72 INKJET PRINTER
operate by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid or
molten material (ink) onto almost any sized page
73 INKLESS PRINTERS
Thermal Printer
work by selectively heating regions of
special heat-sensitive paper
UV Printer
use a special UV light bar which will be
able to write and erase the paper
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SPEAKER
A speaker converts electrical energy to mechanical/acoustical energy.
75 LCD PROJECTOR
is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen
or other flat surface. It is a modern analog of the slide projector or overhead projector.
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HEADPHONES
are a pair of small loudspeakers, or less commonly a single speaker, with a
way of holding them close to a user's ears and a means of connecting them
to a signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio or CD player.
77 STORAGE DEVICE
is a device used for
storing something
78 HARD DISK (HDD)
A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred
to as a hard drive, hard disk or fixed disk
drive
A magnetic disk on which you can store
computer data
Mass Storage is measured in kilobytes,
megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes
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OPTICAL
81 DISK
Originally developed in the late 1960s
is a random access storage medium
A storage medium from which data is read and to which it is written by lasers
82 CD-R AND CD-RW
12 CM 12 CM
DVD
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Digital Versatile Disc
Capacities for single sided is 4.7GB's for single layer
and 8.5GB's for dual-layer disks
Capacities for double sided is 9.4GB's for single layer
and 17GB's for dual-layer disks
Transfer rate: 11.08Mbps
DVD Disc construction formats:
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Single-sided, single-layered
Also known as DVD-5
simplest construction format holds 4.7 Gigabytes (GBytes) of digital data
• Single-sided, dual-layered
▫ The DVD-9 construction holds about 8.5 GBytes.
▫ DVD-9s do not require manual flipping: the DVD
player automatically switches to the second layer
in a fraction of a second, by re-focusing the laser
pickup on the deeper second layer
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Double-sided, single-layered
Known as DVD-10
construction features a capacity of 9.4 GBytes of data
DVD-10 is called the "flipper" disc.
• Double-sided, dual-layered
▫ DVD-18
▫ construction can hold approximately 17 GBytes or
about 8 hours of video and audio as a DVD-Video.
▫ To access the content on the other side of a DVD-
18, manually flip the DVD
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DVD-R
DVD-R is (pronounced "dash R" not "minus R")
is a non-rewriteable format and it is compatible with about 93% of all DVD Players
and most DVD-ROMs.
DVD+R
• DVD+R (pronounced "DVD plus R")
• is a non-rewritable format and it is compatible
with about 89% of all DVD Players and most
DVD-ROMs
87 DVD-R vs. DVD+R
DVD-R discs use tiny marks along the grooves in the discs,
called land prepits, to determine the laser position. WHILE
DVD+R discs do not have land prepits, but instead measure the
"wobble frequency" as the laser moves toward the outside of the
disc.
88 DVD+RW/ DVD-RW
Short for DVD-ReWritable
a re-recordable DVD format which can be erased and recorded
over numerous times without damaging the medium
89 DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL
Double Layer (DL)
Also called Dual Layer writeable
These discs are only writable on one side of the disc, but contain
two layers on that single side for writing data
They can hold up to 8.5GB on the two layers
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91 DOUBLE-SIDED DVD
also come in two formats:
DVD-R and DVD+R, including the rewritable
DVD-RW and DVD+RW
Double-Sided discs include a single layer on
each side of the disc that data can be
recorded to.
can hold about 8.75GB of data if you burn to
both sides
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DVD – Random Access Memory
optical storage that can be re-written
hundreds of thousands of times and has an
expected media life of 30 years
offers capacity of 4.7GB per side/9.4GB per
double-sided and is available in both single-
sided and double-sided media
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HD DVD
High-Definition Digital Versatile Disc
is a high-density optical disc format designed for the storage of data and high-
definition video
Transfer rate : 36Mbps
Physical size Single Dual layer
layer capacity
capacity
12 cm, single sided 15 GB 30 GB
12 cm, double sided 30 GB 60 GB
8 cm, single sided 4.7 GB 9.4 GB
8 cm, double sided 9.4 GB 18.8 GB
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Blu-ray Disc(BD)
is an optical disc storage media format for high-definition video
and data storage
derived from the blue-violet laser used to read and write this type
of disc
The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and
playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large
amounts of data
Transfer rate : 36Mbps
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Holographic Versatile Disc
It employs a technique known as collinear
holography, whereby two lasers, one red and one
green, are collimated in a single beam.
is an optical disc technology that would hold up to
3.9 terabytes (TB) of information.
The HVD also has a transfer rate of 1 Gbit/s (125
MB/s).
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98 USB FLASH DRIVES
A small, portable flash memory card that
plugs into a computer’s USB port and
functions as a portable hard drive
are also called thumb drives, jump drives, pen
drives, key drives, tokens, or simply USB
drives
connected by USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 or both