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| Hardware | The physical components of the computer system. |
| Software | The programs or instructions that tell the computer what to do. |
| CPU | The brain of the computer or central processing unit. |
| ROM | The permanent memory that is built in your computer. This is read only. |
| RAM | The computer's working memory, sometimes called random-accessed memory. |
| Megabyte | Approximately a million bytes. |
| Gigabyte | Approximately a billion bytes (or 1,000 megabytes). |
| Input Device | The hardware that is used to pass information into the computer. |
| Output Device | The hardware that receives and dislplays information coming from the computer. |
| Modem | The device that allows your computer to talk to other computers over a telephone line. |
| Monitor | A video or computer display device. |
| Laser Printer | A printer that uses both laser and photographic technology to produce high quality output. |
| Printer | The hardware that provides printed output from the computer. |
| Hard Copy | A printed copy of computer output. |
| Compact Disc | A disc on which a laser has digitally recorded information such as audio, video, or computer data. |
| Hard Disk | A fixed, large-capacity magnetic storage medium for computer data. |
| Floppy Disk | A portable magnetic storage medium for computer data that allows users to randomly access information. |
| Graphical User Interface | The use of graphical symbols instead of text commands to control common computer functions such as copying programs and disks. |
| Icon | A small picture or symbol respresenting a computer hardware function or component. |
| Ink-jet Printer | A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink. |
| USB | On our Mac, Key board, mouse, external drives, and cameras are attachedby this port. |
| hard copy and soft copy | What are the two types of output .........copy and ..........copy |
| printer | which of the following is an output component, printer, keyboard, mouse, touch pad |
| scanner | which of the following is an input device? Pen plotter, ink jet plotter, printer, scanner |
| hard drive | the item used to store long term memory items. it is made up of several disks.memory |
| Ghz | a unit of measure of the speed of a processor in a fast home computer in 2003 |
| networking | connecting two or more computers together is called? |
| 3.5" | floppy disks have reduced from 8" to 5.25" to what size? |
| it will be erased | what will happen to your data if you format a disk ? |
| more storage, back up if one drive should crash | give reasons for wanting to have a second hard drive in your computer. |
| RAM | If I want to run many programs at onceI should increase what type of memory? |
| 3Ghz | If you use your computer for gaming would I want a 1 Ghz or a 3Ghz computer? |
| 1 megabyte | 1024 kilobytes is equal to? |
| 1024 | 2^3=8 2^4=16 2^5=32 2^7=128 2^8=256 what is 2^10 |
| input, processing, output, and storage (fetch decode execute, store) | what are four processes that computers must go through to process information. |
| WAN and LAN | what are two types of networks called based on location of machines. |
| star network and bus network | What are two geometric configurations of networks, one central, the other linear. |
| transmission media | the physical material which allows you to connect to the internet or a network is called |
| connect to other computers via the internet | a modem allow you to do what? |
| multi media | output made up of still images, video, and sound is called |
| firewire | High speed data transfer ports are called IEEE ports also known as............ on a mac. |
| Modem | a device that modulates digital signal from the computer into an alalog one to send data ot over a phone line is called |
| digital | which signal is generally prefered? analog or digital |
| a Local Area Network | the term LAN referes to |
| a Wide Area Network | the term WAN refers to |
