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| Ink-jet Printer | A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electically charged droplets of ink |
| modem | A device that allows your computer to talk to other computers over telephone lines |
| Megabyte | Approximately a million bytes |
| printer | The hardware that provides printed output from the computer |
| monitor | A video or computer display device |
| input device | The hardware that is used to pass information into the computer |
| hard copy | A printed copy of computer output |
| icon | Small picture or symbol representing a computer hardware function or component. |
| software | The programs or intructions that tell the computer what to do. |
| CPU | Brain of the computer or central processing unit |
| RAM | Computers working memory sometimes called random accessed memory |
| Compact Disc | A disc on which a laser has digitally recorded information such as audio, video, or computer data |
| output device | The hardware that receives and displays information coming from the computer |
| floppy disk | A portable magnetic storage medium for computer data that allows users to randomly access information |
| Laser printer | A printer that uses both laser and photographic technology to produce high quality output |
| ROM | The permanent memory that is built in your computer. This is read only. |
| Graphical User Interface | The use of graphical symbols instead of text commands to control common computer functions such as copying programs |
| hardware | The physical components of the computer system |
| gigabyte | Approx. a billion bytes(or 1000 megabytes) |
