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True or false: Computers process information (output) into data (input).
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False. Process data into information.
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True or false: Communications has become an essential element of the information processing cycle.
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True.
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True or false: The two categories of software are system software and utility software.
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False. They're system software and application software.
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True or false: When a user starts a computer, portions of the operating system load into the computer's hard disk from memory.
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False.
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True or false: Employees that telecommute have rigid work schedules that prevent them from combining work and personal responsibilities.
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False.
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Some people refer to the series of input, process, output, and storage activities as the ___ processing cycle.
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Information
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The ___ unit is a case that contains electronic components of the computer that are used to process data.
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System
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____ consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions.
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Memory
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A(n) ___- device is any hardware component that conveys information to one or more people.
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Output.
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A(n) ___ device records (writes) and/or retrieves (reads) items to and from a USB flash drive, for example.
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Storage.
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A widely used communications device is a ____.
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Modem
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True or false: The design of the ABC computer by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in the late 1930's provided the foundation for the development of electronic digital computers.
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True
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True or false: the first commercially available digital computer was the IBM PC.
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False. First was Univac.
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True or false: It was the UNIVAC I that was responsible for the public becoming increasingly aware of the devlelopment of electronic digital computers, when it predicted the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
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True
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True or false:Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston designed the first word processing program
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False
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