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Radio

            Radio is one of the most popular ICT tools. Radio is commonly used to
            broadcast audio signals. It is widely used in modern technology for radio
            communication, listening  to songs, commentary, news, radar operation,
            radio navigation, etc.                                                                     Radio

                                         Television

                                         Television  popularly  known  as  TV was  invented  by  a  Scottish  scientist
                                         named John  Logie Baird. Television is a system for transmitting visual
                                         images and  sounds  that  are reproduced  on  screens. It  is  chiefly  used
                                         to show programs for entertainment, information, advertisement and
                                         education.
                    Television
            E-Mail


            Electronic mail is a mailing service provided on the Internet by which one can send
            messages to any person around the world through a computer. It has become the
            fastest, easiest and cheapest means of communication for business, governance,
            administration, education, tourism, etc.
                                                                                                           E-Mail
            Computer an Important ICT Tool

            A  computer  is  an  electronic  device  which  performs  numerical  calculations  (+,-,  *,  /)  and  logical
            operations (AND, OR, NOT) at high speed and produces information that is expressible in numerical
            as well as in logical form.

            A computer performs actions and accomplishes its tasks in three basic stages namely: Input, Process
            and Output. It works according to a set of predefined programs. A program is a set of sequentially
            arranged instructions that directs the computer to process the input in order to produce the required
            output or result.













                 MAIN PARTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM

            A computer also has different parts to do different jobs. There
            are four main parts of a computer. They are Monitor, CPU,
            Mouse and Keyboard.

            Let us look at the computer parts in detail.




                                                                                             Computer


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