Английский для пользователей компьютеров. Ч.1. Белобородова М.Л - 24 стр.

 3. How is data represented in primary and secondary storage devices?
 4. What is a mass storage system?
 5. How can you damage your diskette?
 6. What is the significance of the terms track and sector?
7. What happens to the data saved in secondary storage when the power to a compute is
   turned off?
8. How does the direct access storage and retrieval method relate to diskettes and hard
   disks?
9. Why does transferring data between a microcomputer and a mainframe
   computer require special hardware and software?
10. Define what a file is by describing the data storage hierarchy.

5. Discussion:

1. What type(s) of storage hardware is currently being used in the computer you
vsti school or at work? What is the storage capacity of this hardware? Would
you recommend alternate storage hardware be used? Why? Why not?
2. You want to purchase a hard disk for use with your microcomputer.
Because you don't care how much money the hard disk costs, you are going
to buy one with the highest storage capacity you can find. Using newspapers,
magazines, find a hard disk you would like to buy. What is its storage capacity?
It average access time? How much does it cost? Who is the supplier? Is it an
external or an internal drive?

5. Essays:
Research one of the newer storage technologies described above. How is this
technology being applied now? How do you think it will be applied in the future?



                                      UNIT 5

                               Processing Hardware

If you are "tuned in" to the amount of processing power in your computer, you
won't fall into the trap that many people do. We mean that of buying a
software program that won't run on your computer, or expecting the computer
to do something it isn't capable of doing. The most important processing