Introduction to computers and information processing

This revised edition of a broad survey of computer technology and its uses brings several additions. Four new appendices walk readers through MS-DOS, WordPerfect 5.X, Lotus 1-2-3 2.2 and dBASE III Plus, and a further appendix looks at how microcomputers can be put to work.

The structure has also been reorganized. Input and output now sit in one chapter and data storage in another, the old history chapter has been dropped in favor of a pictorial overview placed in an appendix, and two new chapters cover personal computers and microsoftware. A new chapter examines computers in society.

Across the text, general treatments of word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, graphics and databases give readers a framework for understanding these software categories rather than tying them to a single product.