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| Insertion point | The blinking character on a computer screen that shows you where the mouse pointer is located or where you are going to type next |
| Diskette | A type of magnetic mediathat can store computer information encoded on a surface similar to that of magnetic tape . Today the most common are 3.5". |
| Output | The computer-generated information that is displayed to the user in some form such as a screen display, printed page, or sound |
| Output Device | A device that allows the computer to communicate with the user, such as a monitor or printer |
| Peripheral | Any piece of hardware apart from the computer's actual processing unit |
| Presentation device | An output device that allows people to display the processed information |
| Printer | An output device that produces a paper copy of the information from the computer |
| Processing | The work done by the computer |
| RAM | Random Accesed Memory- Tempory storage memory chips that form the computer's primary work space ; contents are lost if power is lost . These form a primary storage that can be read and written to many times. |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory- Storage memory chips that are able to mantain their contents if the power is lost. This form of primary stoprage chips have their stored content entered at the time they are made and can be written to only once. |
| Save | stores information by transferring it from main to memory[RAM] to long/term memory[disk,CD] |
| Scanner | A computer input device that can read text, images, and bar codes and translate them into digital code. |
| Search Engine | A tool used to find information on the internet- Lycos, Hot Bot, InfoSeek |
