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Article: Computer Zone. (part 4).(memory in microcomputers)
- Article from:
- U.S. Kids
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER: Part 4 MEMORY
You may have heard people using terms like hardware, software, hard drives, floppy disks, and memory when talking about computers. They make it sound like computers have hard parts, soft parts, and a brain! Is that how computers really work? Let's take a closer look and see what's going on.
Hardware is any part of a computer that you can touch or see. That would include things like the keyboard, monitor, and mouse.
Software, on the other hand, is any information or electronic instructions that tell your computer what to do. You can't see or touch software, but your computer ...