Section 7 - How Computers Work

From the following three sections you have learned that input devices feed information into the computer, the CPU processes the information and the output devices translate this information back to the user in a form that is easily understood. This section briefly discusses how the CPU translates the information that it receives into a form that the computer understands.

Even though the processor is the brain of the computer, it is actually very limited in what it understands. The processor only recognizes two digits: the "0" and the "1". (The two digit language is known as binary.) All information is stored as 0's and 1's.