# 6 Summary of Session 1

In this session you have had a brief introduction to computers from their origins in large room-sized machines of eighty years to the pocket devices of today. You have also seen that computers work on data. In this course you will learn more about modern computers and how they process data, and more about the formatting of data so that computers can work with it as part of useful computer systems.

In the next session you will learn more about the components of a computer, its processor

You can now go to Session 2.

OpenLearn - An introduction to computers and computer systems
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