Week 4 story

The time I went to a computer manufactory

By Jacob

          I was living in El Paso TX which was last year. One day while my dad and I were watching television a commercial came on that said a computer manufactory was going to have a tour of their factory, I asked my dad if we could go and he said yes! I opened the computer immediately so we could buy tickets on their website before they got sold out. After we bought them I went to the link that said “what the tour will be featuring “. It said that we will be watching the workers make the computers and they will explain to us how everything works inside a computer and showing us a video on what computers they want to make in the future.

          I had to wake up at 7:00 in the morning which I hate doing on the weekends but today I didn’t mind. The drive from the factory to my house is 30 minutes. Their were about 10 more families most of them were dads and sons. First we got to meet the manager of the factory and he told us what we were going to do. Then he introduced us to the tour guide Nick. First we got to see the factory a little bit then we got to observe the workers put a computer together. I recognized when they put in the ROM and RAM chips and the hardrive in the circuit board, I also recognized when they put the sound card in. When we finished watching them Nick took us to a computer that was already finished and explained to us how everything works like what happens when the input and output devices get connected to the circuit board, how the computer translates through binary, how buses move everything in the circuit board, how bits get stored in the hardrive and how megahertz measure it, how storage devices store everything, and how operating systems work. Finally Nick took us to watch the video, it was really interesting. The video talked about what they want to accomplish in the future, but the part that I found most interesting is that they want to create a new byte that is bigger than kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.

          Even though I had to wake up at 7 in the morning, I really enjoyed the tour.

Week 4 vocabulary

Week 4 vocabulary words

1.Input devices –I use a keyboard as a input device.                                                                      



               2.output devices-a printer is a example.

3.storage device-a usb is a storage device.

4.kilobyte-a kilobyte is about 1000 bytes

5.megabyte-a computer can store until 512 megabytes.

6.Gigabyte-hard disks are measured this way.

7. terabyte-is the smallest measurement of bytes.

8.bits-the way information is stored.

9.byte= the bigger the byte the more memory is stored.

            10.binary is made of ones and zeors.

            11.megaherz- macs have allot of megahertz.

12.rom-a example of rom is internet.

13.ram-a example of ram recently visited websites.

14.hardrive-the hardrive has discs inside it.

15.cicut board-is where everything is connected to.

16.Buses-can connect everything inside.

17.sound cards- let you hear stuff from the computer.

18.operating system-a game is a example of a operating system.