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| monitor | display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen |
| keyboard | device consisting of a set of keys on a computer |
| speaker | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
| flash drive | A plug-in play stick of external storage space. Also called travel or stick drive |
| USB port | The USB (universal serial bus) port connects your computer to the digital camera or card reader |
| power cord | a cord to conduct power to an electrical appliance |
| disk drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
| printer | an output device that prints the results of data processing |
| scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of a document for data input to a computer |
| megabyte (MG) | approximately one million bytes |
| bus | an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits |
| chip set | A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an ibm pc. |
| giga byte (GB) | Amount of memory equal to 1024 Megabytes |
| cache | RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated |
| cookie | A cookie is a small text file sent to a web user's computer by a website |
| GHz | Unit of frequency equal to one billion cycles per second |
| MHz | One MHz is equal to one million Hertz |
| CRT screen | the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube |
