Coputers In Modern Society
Beginning of paper
Looking around at daily life, I noticed a pattern of computer oriented
devices that make life easier and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in
most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is
computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a computerized
telev ....
Middle of paper
.... faster telephone lines, most notably the fiber optic lines, have been
added, for an extra charge, to transfer data about 4 times faster than
conventional phone lines (about 28,000 bits per second has been quadrupled to
about 128,000 bits per second. As speed enhances, memory and storage space is
needed to hold excess information. EDO RAM is a new, faster memory module that
helps transfer RAM data twice as fast as normal RAM. For long term storage of
large amounts of data, hard driv ....
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