What is a Computer?

What actually a computer is?

If this question was asked in a book or on a paper then the answer would have been different but since you are reading it from a blog using a Computer, then the answer is "What you are staring at is a Computer".

Any way jokes apart.

Definition of a Computer:

       A Computer is an electronic data processing device which can read and write, compute and compare, store and process large volume of data with high speed, accuracy and reliability.

In simple words:

• The computer runs using electricity.
• It is made up of electronic assembly.
• It can also read and write.
• It can store very large amount of information, such as e-books, songs, pictures etc.
• A computer works fast, faster than humans.
• It doesn't make errors.
• The information that we store doesn't get spoiled or erased.

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The Computer Illiterate.

The Computer Illiterate:

Majority of Indian Students are Computer Illiterate

      The first time I saw a Computer was may be in the year 1994 or maybe 1995. I was in class II or III. I saw it at my father’s office. I still remember that day and the thrill I felt when my father took us to his office just to show Computer the “Wonder Machine”. At the office the clerk who was working on the Computer asked me to remove my "Action" shoes before entering the Computer room. What I saw there was many terminals connected to the server somewhere in the building. It was just a black and white monitor with an attached typewriter (keyboard). I was awestruck by seeing it. I remember I just stood there and stared at the machine. I had heard so much about it that it could do a hundred men’s (unfortunately not a women's work) work alone with speed without stopping.

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