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| Computer | an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations |
| Monitor | a projection unit of the graphical pictures you are inputting through the computer |
| Keyboard | the hardware which is used to enter to text the screen, most keyboards are relatively the same, with only slight variations |
| Mouse | visual selector through graphic interfaces, it provides a pointer and enables you to click certain options or select certain programs, works through a tiny controller which rolls on a ball to move around. |
| Tower or CPU | same thing as microprocessor, the chip that controls your computer |
| Hardware | the parts of a computer system that you directly touch or use, these items would be the keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc, hardware runs hand-in-hand with the computer via the cables connected usually in the back or side of the computer |
| Software | programs that you can put onto your computer, usually off of a cd |
| Operating System | the application that controls the computer |
| Boot | slang for starting up a computer, to boot a computer is to turn it on |
| Jump Drive/Flash Drive | a storage unit for documents and programs |
| Floppy Disc | a 3 1/2, 5 1/4, or an 8 inch disk that stores data, they were very common for installing programs |
| Compact Disc | a storage device for saving documents and files |
