The following is considered: composition, characteristics, functions and structure of technical means of information processing, storage and transfer, including types of information and methods of its presentation in a computer; number systems, translation of numbers from one number system to another; computer logic fundamentals; elementary logic functions; personal computers (processors, memory systems, interfaces); information storage devices (magnetic tapes, disks, optical drives - CDDVD, magneto-optical, solid-state and other alternative technologies);