The Basics Of A Hard Drive

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Term Paper Title	The Basics Of A Hard Drive
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The Basics of A Hard Drive

The Basics of A Hard Drive

I'm sure, by now you have used a computer be it to play games or write a
paper. But do you know how a computer works and runs all the programs you what
it to? Well if not I will tell you. To begin with I will explain a little about
the history about the computers history. About 50 years or maybe a little longer
someone came up with the thought that all the boring stuff like math could be
automated so humans would not have to do it all. Hence the computer, as to who
exactly I could not tell you. That person than began to work with his Idea and
figured out that if he could turn a machine on and off at a specified time for a
specified time he could in a way alter what it could do. To turn it on and off
he came up with a very interesting way, he used a sheet that looked almost like
a scantron sheet but with holes and those holes where used to turn it on and off.
The holes represented 1s and the noholes 0s. the 1s turned it on an the 0s
turned it off. With this knowledge he began to make little programs that could
solve math problems. I guess he must have gotten bored with the math or
something because he came up with a way to let him play tic-tack toe with the
computer, which by the way was the first came ever to be created on the computer.
Now there is one more thing you have to know about this computer, the computer
was half the size of West High Schools gym. And it was thought that when it was
ecomoical for...

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