
Students' Guide to Business Computing
invoices, and hundreds of pages of reports need to be printed out
weekly, or even daily. This requires fast printers, and only relatively
powerful computers can support such printers.
Communications links
It is now usually easy to connect computers together, and this
provides great flexibility. The physical link may be either a direct
cable or a telephone line. For a microcomputer to communicate with
another computer, it just requires a suitable communications board to
be installed, together with an associated piece of software to control
operations. The communications (or comms) board is a printed
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