The input technologies that are depicted are the mouse and keyboard. With this technology a person will input the word "HELLO". The computer will then transfer the information to the processing technology which is essentially the system unit which contains the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This includes the control unit (schedules the words into data) , ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit- does the math), and registers (internal memory). These will turn the word that was typed into a binary code consisting of 1's and 0's, but the only language the computer truly understands is machine language. Each letter that is in binary code is in a sequence of 8 bits or 1 byte which is known as ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchange). After the binary code is set, it is then stored and manipulated inside of a database. When the word "HELLO" is typed and stored the computer immediately displays the information on some sort of output technology such as a monitor or printer. This whole process, of converting an input technology to processing technology and eventually displayed on an form of output technology, only takes a split second to do. Computers are just that fast!
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