Computers In Marketing

software

a set of electronic instrucitons that directs the CPU to carry out a specific task

laptop

a small, portable, personal computer

CD-ROM

a type of optical storage device identical to audio music CDs

minicomputer

computers ideal for organizations and companies that cannot afford or do not need a mainframe system

scanner

hardware that reads documents and transforms images into digital data

disk drive

hardware used to read data from and write data to a disk

microcomputer

personal computer (PC) used in most medium and smaller businesses

supercomputer

the largest most powerful type of computer

hardware

the physical components of a computer system

PDAs

the smallest personal computer

DVD

a high entisity optical storage device capable of storing a full-length movie on a single disk the size of a CD

mainframe

large computers, sometimes filing the whole room