Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Automatic data processing equipment, legally defined, is any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception. System (from Latin syst ma, in turn from Greek syst ma, "whole compounded of several parts or members, system," literary "composition") is a set of interacting or interdependent system components forming an integrated whole.