INFORMATION SYSTEM

1. A system , whether automated or manual, that comprises people, machines, and/or methods organized to collect, process, transmit, and disseminate data that represent user information . ( 188 ) 2. Any telecommunications and/or computer related equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the acquisition, storage , manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching , interchange, transmission , or reception of voice and/or data, and includes software , firmware , and hardware . [ NIS ]