Предмет: Английский язык,
автор: хосиятхон
Make up your own sentences. Mind: the prefixes -mis, un -are negative.
A. to mislay a letter; затерять письмо, не положить письмо на месте
to misplace a book; затерять книгу, не положить книгу на месте
to misread a name; неправильно истолковал имя, неправильно прочитал имя
to mistrust a person; не доверять человеку, сомневаться человеку
to misunderstand a person; не понять человека, не правильно понять человека
to misuse the word; неправильное употребление слова
to mistake one person for another – человек заблуждается другому
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Exercise 4. Remember the meaning of the terms that you will find in the text.
1. Spread sheet package - a kind of computer programs that you calculate data on
sale, taxis, profits and so on.
2. Floppy disk - a disk made of plastic material upon which data are stored on
magnetic tracks.
3. Compatible - it is usually said about two computers when their programs can be
run on both of them.
4. Peripheral devices, or peripherals are units connected to the central processing
units (CPU); they are input devices, output devices and storage devices.
5. Input is the process of transferring data or program instruction into the computer.
6. Output is the result produced by a computer.
7. Storage is the process of keeping information in a special device in computer.
8. Software may be denoted as a set of programs or instructions executed by the
computer.
9. Hardware is a computer machinery and equipment.
10. Digital computer is a type of computer that uses a binary system.
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11. Chip is a tiny piece of silicon containing a complex electronic circuits.
Before reading the passage " The Rise of the Personal Computer" find in the text
"The Rise of IBM" the chronological information on the models of computers
produced by this company.
Was the policy of IBM successful in the 1960s?
THE RISE OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER
The first personal computer, the Altair, was announced in Popular Electronics
in its January 1975 issue. The Altair was also the first example of new computer
hardware. It caused a sensation in the computer industry: those who wanted could
have their own computers to play with at home, and a mighty computer industry soon
began to grow.
A young computer hacker from Seattle by the name of William Gates, then a
freshman at Harvard, sold the Altair developers a computer language that would run
on their machine and that made it possible to program many advanced functions.
Emboldened by their success with Altair, Gates and his friend founded Microsoft
Corporation, which has become the world's largest person
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