// On-Selasa, 08 November 2016
The term computer has a broad meaning
and is different for each person. The term computer (the computer) is taken
from the Latin word meaning computer calculate (to computer or to reckon).
According Blissmer (1985), a computer
is an electronic device that is capable of performing several tasks, which
receive input, process the input according to the instructions given, save the
commands and result processing and, provides output in the form of information.
Meanwhile, according to sanders
(1985), a compute is an electronic
system to manipulate data quickly and accurately as well as designed and
organized in order to automatically receive and store input data, processes it,
and produces outputs based on the instructions that have been stored in memory.
And many more experts are trying to define it differently on the computer. However
in essence it can be concluded that the computer is an electronic device that
can accept input, provide information, using a program stored in the computer
memory, can store the programs and the result of processing, and work automatically.
From the definition, there are three
important terms, namely the input (data), data processing, and information (output).
Data processing using a computer known as electronic data processing (EDP) or
electronic of data processing (EDP). Data is a collection of events that raised
a fact (fact), can be numbers, letters, special symbols, or a combination of
events that raised a fact (fact), can be numbers, letters, special symbol, or a
combination, of all three. Data still not able to tell much that eeds to be
processed further.
Data processing is a process of manipulation
of data into a from that is more useful and more means, in the form an
information. Thus, information is the result of a data processing is the process
of manipulation of data into a more meaningful form of an information by using
an electronic device, namely computer.
