Terms used in this chapter mean:

(1) “Access,” to instruct, communicate with, store data in, or retrieve data from a computer system;

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(2) “Computer,” an internally programmed, general purpose digital device capable of automatically accepting data, processing data and supplying the results of the operation;

(3) “Software,” a series of coded instructions or statements in a form acceptable to a computer system, which causes the computer system to process data in order to achieve a certain result;

(4) “Computer system,” includes any computer, computer network, other related device, data input and output and storage devices, and data communications links;

(5) “Computer network,” a set of related, connected network electronics and communications links that allows any computer system to communicate with any other computer system;

(5A) “Data,” digitized information in any form that may be accessed by a computer system, regardless of whether the information is in transmission or stored on a computer system, diskette, compact diskette, cd–rom, tape, or in any other medium;

(6) “Destroy,” to make unusable, render inoperable, render unable to accept or process data, or supply results, render unable to perform data processing tasks or cause computer networks to be unable to transfer data between computer systems for any amount of time.

Source: SL 1982, ch 300, § 2; SL 1984, ch 282, § 2; SL 2002, ch 109, § 28.