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THE HERALD Wednesday October 10 1990 Lifestyles Computers touch all our lives By SCOTT WILLIAMS Computers are all around us We see them in the office in the super market at the bank at the travel agents We also see them in many people homes But what is a com And what makes the com the airline uses to book your vacation different from the com you use at home to write a letter to your aunt or to balance your cheque book Remarkably though there are many differences between computers they share many similarities One characteristic that all computers share is that they can sometime be mystenous or even frightening to those who do not understand them Over the coming weeks we II be shedding some light on these machines that touch our lives in more ways each day So what is a computer A com puter is a device that really only does three things it slores formation 2 it some kind of work on the information it computes and it gets in formation from and provides in formation to the outside to and from computer users like you and this is called input and out put The part of the computer that does the input and output of formation is the most visible part Computers very often get their put from a board which very often looks like the keyboard of a typewriter Computer output comes in two forms visual output from a video terminal or displav screen and printed output sometimes called output from some kind of printer The part of the computer thai tually does the work the com is the brain of the com system These can be verv small as in the case of a home system or immensely large as in the case of a nationwide banking network This part of the computer is called the which stands for Central Processing Unit The part of the computer that stores information consists of two parts a medium which holds the information and a device to read and write the information to and from the medium There is a close analogy between this and a cassette recorder in which the in formation is the sound to be 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issues to consider when pur chasing a computer for the home Scott Williams Is a computer consultant bused in Toronto He graduated from a degree In Mathematics In 1082 Since hen he has worked for a number of firms in the Computer Industry In technical marketing and management roles He is cur renlh General Manager of Computers International a full service computer dealer specializing in Unix Training and Computer Svstem Support Say I saw it in The Herald When RECESSION hits you need all the help you can get When recession hits and business goes flat the temptation is to cut costs especially your company s investment in such intangibles as advertising But studies show cutting back on advertising is a mistake During the recession companies that reduce their advertising had a much greater sales growth during and after the recession than firms that cut back So says a study by Hill of New York which com pared the sales performance of 600 companies between 1980 and 1985 Firms that maintained 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