In this chapter you will learn: What types of computers are needed for business applications? What are the basic objects that computers process? What are the main components of a computer? Why is the operating system so important? How does the Internet change the role of computers? What are the main software applications used in business?. | Introduction to MIS Chapter 2 Information Technology Foundations Jerry Post Technology Toolbox: Voice Input Technology Toolbox: Creating Effective Charts Cases: The Computer Industry 1 Outline What types of computers are needed for business applications? What are the basic objects that computers process? What are the main components of a computer? Why is the operating system so important? How does the Internet change the role of computers? What are the main software applications used in business? Changing Technology Selections Desktop: $400-2,000 Laptop:$600-2,000 Tablet:$500-2,000 Workstation: $2,000-7,000 Super computer: $1,000,000+ Enterprise Server: $10,000-$1,000,000 Cell phone:$200-700 HP Apple Motorola Sun (extinct) Cray Trends Hardware Size (capacity) Speed (performance) Reliability Mobility and physical size Price Data types: Text, Images, Audio, Video Software and Operating System Trends Original: User/Programmer Early: Sequential Questions Easier: Menus Current: User/Event Driven 4 Technology Trends Cost of workers increasing Cost of technology decreasing Capabilities increasing Processing speed Storage capacity Types of data text image sound video Quality and reliability Communications 5 Brief History of Computing Forerunners 1642 Pascal's mechanical adding machine 1694 Leibnitz' calculator 1750 Industrial Revolution in England 1834 Babbage's analytical engine 1880 Hollerith's punched-card system 1940 1942 Atanasoff Berry Computer 1946 ENIAC electronic digital computer 1949 EDSAC stored program computer 1950 1951 UNIVAC I: . Bureau of Census 1954 IBM 650: popular 1st generation 1960 1965 IBM System/360: 3rd generation 1965 DEC PDP-8: 1st minicomputer 6 Computing History 1970 1970 IBM System/370 announced 1975 MITS Altair 8800: micro kit 1976 Cray I shipped supercomputer 1978 TRS-80/I, Apple II introduced 1980 1982 IBM Personal Computer 1984 Apple Macintosh 1988 32 bit microprocessors (I486 & M 68040) 1989 RISC processors, LANs 1990 Rapidly declining | Introduction to MIS Chapter 2 Information Technology Foundations Jerry Post Technology Toolbox: Voice Input Technology Toolbox: Creating Effective Charts Cases: The Computer Industry 1 Outline What types of computers are needed for business applications? What are the basic objects that computers process? What are the main components of a computer? Why is the operating system so important? How does the Internet change the role of computers? What are the main software applications used in business? Changing Technology Selections Desktop: $400-2,000 Laptop:$600-2,000 Tablet:$500-2,000 Workstation: $2,000-7,000 Super computer: $1,000,000+ Enterprise Server: $10,000-$1,000,000 Cell phone:$200-700 HP Apple Motorola Sun (extinct) Cray Trends Hardware Size (capacity) Speed (performance) Reliability Mobility and physical size Price Data types: Text, Images, Audio, Video Software and Operating System Trends Original: User/Programmer Early: Sequential Questions Easier: Menus Current: User/Event
