| Description |
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
1. The World of Computers -- Image Bank: The History of Computing: An Overview -- 2. Inside the Computer -- Image Bank: The Computer on a Chip -- 3. Software: Telling Computers What to Do -- 4. Storing and Retrieving Information: Disks and Tape Backup Units -- 5. Input/Output: Computers in Action -- 6. Networks and Networking: Linking the World -- 7. Going Online: The Net, Information Services, and More -- App. The Windows Environment -- 8. Communicating: Word Processing, Desktop Publishing, Electronic Publishing, and Presenting -- 9. Organizing and Gathering Information: Spreadsheet, Database, and Browsers -- 10. Graphics and Multimedia: Tickling our Senses -- Image Bank: Personal Computing Buyer's Guide -- 11. Information Systems: The MIS, DSS, and EIS -- Image Bank: Robots and Robotics -- 12. Developing Business Information Systems -- 13. Computers in Society: Today -- Image Bank: PC Applications Galore -- 14. Computers in Society: Tomorrow |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Computers.
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Electronic data processing.
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| Author |
Long, Nancy, 1947-
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| LC no. |
97011150 |
| ISBN |
0137377843 (paperback) |
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