| A | B |
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| Motherboard | The larges circuit board inside your personal computer. |
| Peripheral | A device connected to the computer which is not part of the central computing machinery. It is an add on. |
| Laser printer | A printer that uses copier-like technology to spread patterns of toner and affix it to paper using heat. |
| Scanner | A device that lets you create files by scanning pictures, drawings or text. |
| Inkjet printer | A printer that sprays ink onto paper to produce a printed page. |
| Plotters | A device that uses a needle to draw on paper to create schematic drawings. |
| Kilobyte | 1 thousand bytes |
| Megabyte | 1 millioin bytes |
| Gigabyte | 1 billion bytes |
| Terabyte | 1 trillion bytes |
| Mouse | A hand-held, button-activated input device that allows you to select items on -screen by pointing at them with the mouse pointer. |
| Mouse Pointer | A marker on you computer screen that shows you where the next mouse action will occur. |
| I-beam | A mouse pointer shape resembling the uppercase letter I. |
| Modem | A device that controls communication connections between computers. |
| CD drive | A specialized type of disk drive which enables a computer to read from a compact disc. |
| Byte | one character of information comprised of eight bits grouped together. |
| Hard disk | A storage medium that consists of several inflexible circular platters that store items electronically. |
| Floppy disk | Portable, inexpensive storage medium which is a thin circular flexible plastic disk. |
| C.P.U. | Central processing unit, also known as the brains of the computer |
| R.A.M. | Random Access Memory. A type of temporary memory. |
