| A | B |
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| megabyte | Approximately a million bytes |
| software | Programs or instruction |
| hardware | Physical componenets of the computer system |
| input | Information put into the computer |
| output | Displayed information |
| modem | The device that allows computer to talk to other computers |
| monitor | Displays information on a screen |
| printer | Provides printed output |
| icon | A small picture |
| mouse | Input device |
| keyboard | An arrangement of letters, figures, and symbols. |
| disk | Magnetic storage device |
| disk drive | A unit that reads and writes onto a disk |
| gigabyte | Approximately a billion bytes |
| CPU | The brain of the computer, Central Processing Unit |
| application window title bar | Displays the program name |
| menu bar | Menu names from which drop-down memus are accessed |
| standard toolbar | Buttons that help to select commonly used commands |
| formatting toolbar | Contains buttons that help to select formatting and layouts |
| ruler | Allows for change in margins and tab settings |
| status bar | Displays information on the position of the insertion point |
| scroll bars | Used to move the screen view horizontally and vertically |
| show/hide button | Displays or removes nonprinting characters such as spaces between words and return |
| Microsoft Word | Word processing tool |
| Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet tool |
| Microsofot Power Point | Presentation tool |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| Microseconds | Computers operate at speed recorded in |
| Computer | An electronic device that accepts data, makes logical decisions according to instructions recived and produces meaningful information |
| General purpose computer | Computers whose computation and input/output processing capapbilities allow the to be used for almost any type of application |
| System program | The type of program that tells the computer precisely what action to perform |
| Raw | Data that is fed into the computer for processing |
| Personal computer | for and used primarily in business, homes, schools, government, and idustry |
| Information processing | The process of sharing information between humans and computers |
| Application Program | A program that tells the computer to perform a specific, user defined task |
| Internet | A physically structured netwok of computers around the world |
| Megahertz | Internal clock speed of a computer measured in millionths of a second |
