what's im exactly what does it do 1st computer?
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IM = Instant messenger (also known as a chat client or chat network)\n\nIt's a way to communicate with people over the network with software using text-based communication.  It's like interactive live email.  Most popular are AIM (AOL's instant messenger) and Yahoo's IM.\n\nSo, you type something and then the other person types something in response immediately and on and on.  IM clients can do other things like voice and video.  So, you can use video and voice in addition to text based communications.\n\nYahoo's IM can be found here:\nhttp://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php;_ylt=AmH_mjIH3EuclPsF195xK3lwMMIF
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personal data assistant \n \nk1
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click on start>>my computer icon, and it will show you whatcha got!!! look under devices!!
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to start a computer you press the "on button"
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Very easy for you (if running Windows XP)\n\nRight click on My Computer ... click Properties\n\nit will tell you on the first screen
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Thats what it does.  They are the keys used to reboot a pc using Windows.
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P= Personal\nC= Computer
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Here's the simple version:\nComputers have\nA brain (CPU or central processing unit)\nMemory \nStorage\nPeripherals\nThe CPU is like an air traffic controller controlling all your requests and running all your programs.\nThe Memory holds the programs - including your OS (windows etc.) and data temporarily for the CPU to access.\nStorage such as a hard disk drive holds information when it is too large or inconvenient to place in memory and when the computer is shut down.\nPeripherals: Keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer are what the computer uses to interact with the Human.\n\nThe CPU manages all your interactions : running programs, copying files, surfing the web.  It uses the resources it needs (peripherals, memory, storage etc.) to fulfill those requests. \nImagine you have a private chef, who is locked in his own kitchen.  You make a request to him.  He produces the food and uses his resources, pots, pans  ingredients, recipes etc.  He's like your CPU.\n\nIt goes much further than that, but I hope that helps.
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What question would you ask (me), and what answer would you expect, to determine that I am not a computer?\n\n(the same thing !!)
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Paramount, everything the computer does is math.\n\nUsing the 0 & 1 to make up all known numbers and characters and to use logical math pathways to calculate instructions in the CPU, the very basis of a computer works in math.
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There's not much to it.  You just install it and follow the directions.\n\nThe help files are good.  Read those.\n\nMaybe if you have a more specific question we can be of more help.
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1.AS AN OUTPUT DEVICE\n2.TO VIEW THE COMPUTER'S ANSWERS\n3.ACTS AS AN INTERACTIVE TOOL BETWEEN USER AND COMPUTER
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Monitor: output, keyboard: input, cpu: processing\nMonitor is a graphic output, the screen.\nKeyboard, character input, the typing device\nCPU (central processing unit), brain and core of pc, does the thinking, calculations, processing...\n\nThey are all important...
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this  confusing....computer service?
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That depends on what you mean by "computer".  The basis of any computing machine is the ability to do input, processing and output.  The core of what makes it a computer is to handle "whatif" questions and to respond differently based on the answer to those questions.  For example, to say, "If the dollar amount is less than X then do this, but if it's greater than X then do that.\n\nBy that definition, the first true computer would probably be Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" built in the late 1800s.  An improved version, which he called the "Analytical Engine" actually accepted punch card programs, the first of which was written by Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, making her the world's first computer programmer.\n\nThe first truly modern electronic computer was, arguably, the ENIAC developed for the US Army by the University of Pennsylvania.  I say "arguably" because it depends on which features you want to include in the definition of "modern electronic computer."  For example, the ENIAC had no stored memory and had to be rewired for each program.\n\nHope this helps.
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It's a command-line based operating system.\n\nIt allows you to control your computer using text commands (like in Unix), rather than a GUI (Graphical User Interface) like Windows.
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What is it?\nIs it a Pocket PC? or a desktop? laptop?\n\nYou will find some of them in links below\n\nXLMan