Active and Passive ~ MAWWAR . . .

Active

It takes in raw information (or data) at one end, . . .

she knows post their math problem to her.

she goes to her letterbox

she takes a letter off the top of the pile, . . .

she moves to the next letter in pile.

it works amazingly hard . . .

the computer stores each pixel as a number.

they run from right to left instead of left to right.

people started selling programs . . .

it can run a word-processing program one minute- . . .

they all ran in their own . . .


Passive

it was probably the worst prediction in history.

they are embedded in everything from microwave . . .

storing information is better known as memory . . .

the computer can be reprogrammed as many times as you like.

they can be changed easily

computer programs have really been invented.

the software in a computer that other programs are built on top of.

... is usually written by the hardware manufacturer.

. . . it's known as firmware

the operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was,  of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gates