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| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone in 1876. |
| Intel | The world's largest chip maker. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | Developed the printing press in 1456. |
| Sir Ambrose Fleming | Developed the first vacuum tube. |
| Henry Ford | A pioneer in development of mass production of cars. |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| Mouse | A computer input device that is used to point to and click on a location on the monitor. |
| Floppy Disk | Computer storage device. A thin, flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic material and placed in a square plastic case. |
| Hard Drive | A disk drive that houses a hard disk or type of computer memory. Most PC s have a built in one of these. |
| Hardware | The physical components of a computer system---keyboard, monitor, mouse, etc. |
| Software | Detailed, step-by-step set of directions to be carried out by the microprocessor of a computer. Also called a computer program. |
| Keyboard | Computer input device containing typewriter-like or calculator-like keys. |
| Hard disk | A type of magnetic disk that is built using a stiff, inflexible material such as aluminum or glass. |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
| Disk | A magnetic disk. Can be a hard disk or a floppy disk. |
| Program | A group of instructions that tell a computer what to do. This is another name for software. |
| Data | Information a computer deals with. |
| Monitor | An output device that can display text and graphics. It looks like a TV. |
| Personal Computer | A computer designed to be used by one person at a time. |
| Motherboard | The main circuit board in a computer. |
| Boot | To start up a computer system. |
| Internet | An electronic telecommunications system joining together many thousands of computers worldwide. |
| Megahertz | MHz. Used in talking about the speed of a micro-processor. |
| Information processor | A machine that receives input, stores, manipulates, and can output information. A computer is one of these machines. |
| Multimedia | More than one medium. A combination of text, sound, graphics, and video controlled by a computer system. |
| Bar code | A pattern of black and white stripes representing digital data. |
| Scanner | An input device used to read text and bar codes, or to input pictures into a computer. |
| Output | Information coming OUT of a computer. It might be text, sound, graphics, or video. |
| Input | The process of putting information INTO a computer. Also, information that is to go INTO a computer. |
| Diskette | A magnetic disk. (Floppy Disk) |
