Компьютерная техника. Еремина Н.В. - 11 стр.

for secondary storage are considered part of the … component. These devices along
with Input and Output devices are referred to as … devices.

     2.3 Home exercises (to be done in writing)

     2.3.1 Read and translate the following text in to Russian

Application
      Railways use large computer systems to control ticket reservations and to give
immediate information on the status of trains. The computer system is connected by
private telephone lines to terminals in major train stations and ticket reservations for
customers are made through there. The passenger’s name, type of accommodation
and the train schedule is put into computer’s memory.
      On a typical day, a railway’s computer system gets thousand of telephone calls
about reservations, space on other railways, and requests for arrivals and departures.
      A big advantage of the railway computer ticket reservation system is its
rapidity because a cancelled booking can be sold. Here in the system just a fee
seconds later. Railway computer systems are used not for reservations alone. They
are used for variety of other jobs including schedule, planning, freight and cargo
loading, meal planning, personnel availability, accounting and stock control.
      It is the incredible speed of computers along with their memory capacity that
make them so useful and valuable. Computers can solve problems in a fraction of the
time it takes man. For this reason businesses use them to keep their accounts, and
airlines tramlines and business use them to keep track of ticket sales. As for memory,
modern computers can store information with high accuracy and reliability. A
computer can put data into its “memory” and retrieve it again in a few millionths of
a second. It also has a storage capacity for as many as a million items.

     2.3.2 Translate the following article with the help of а dictionary

     Apple launches а new product

      As the spokesman for the company put it, “Newton” is the father of а whole
family of information accumulation and transmission devices, the production of
which is based on the unique elements software and base. The basis of the electronic
part is ARM 610 Risc-processor (volume PZU-4 МЬ, OZU-640 kb). The “Newton
Mail” software package is also on offer.
      In essence “Newton” is not а computer, but an electronic notebook and fax
machine all in one. What is more, the new machine is sophisticated and quick enough
to preserve information into it, and even to classify data and transmit numbers fed
into its memory in advance to addresses, telephones and fax machines automatically.
      “Newton” fits easily into а pocket or folder. The devise may be operated with an
electronic “реn”, with which the user writes information required or the idea that
struck him on the display. If the information is meant for specific person, it is