First you have your outside units like your printer, monitors, modem, floppy disk drive, CD ROM drive, scanner, speakers and keyboard. ... The monitor is the television like unit where you observe text and images. ... The keyboard is an input unit that produces data bits. ... Central Processing Units (CPU) a microprocessor that is, a single piece of silicon containing millions of electrical components. ... The computer used 18,000 standard vacuum parts, occupied 167 meters squared of floor space and it used 180,000 watts of electricity. ...

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