Basic External Components
Two examples of this are a printer and a monitor.
What is a Computer Output Device?
The primary component of a computer and a complex set of electronic circuitry that runs the machine's operating system and apps.
What is a Central Processing Unit or CPU?
A printed circuit board and foundation of a computer that allocates power and allows communication between the CPU, RAM, and all other computer hardware components.
What is a Motherboard?
The programs and other operating information used by a computer. You cannot see or touch it.
What is Software?
The machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system, that you can see and touch.
What is Hardware?
Two examples of this are a keyboard and mouse.
What is a Computer Input Device?
An integrated electronic circuit that performs the calculations that run a computer
What is Processor?
A flat panel display that uses an array of light-emitting diodes as pixels for a video display (Light-Emitting Diode)
What is an LED?
Refers to a system representing the colors used on a digital display screen: Red, Green, and Blue
What is RGB?
A reversible connector that can be used to transmit data, video, and audio signals (USB Type-C)
What is a USBC?
A network cable used for high-speed wired network connections between two devices
What is an Ethernet Cord?
To press the right button on the mouse and release it (usually your index finger, if you are right-handed)
What is Right-Clicking?
To press the left button on the mouse and release it, two times, rapidly.
What is Double-Clicking?
A wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet access
What is WiFi?
A specialized processor originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering, which can process many pieces of data simultaneously, making them useful for machine learning, video editing, and gaming applications.
What is a Graphics Processing Unit?
Consists of thick wires and converts flowing electricity into a stable direct current.
What is a Power Supply Unit?
A short term memory device that allows you to run multiple programs at a time.
What is RAM?
An analog display device that creates a visible image on the screen by directing three electron beams over millions of phosphorescent dots to make them light up.
What is a Cathode Ray Tube Monitor (CRT)?
A type of flat panel display that uses liquid crystals in its primary form of operation (Liquid Crystal Display)
What is LCD?
A collection of one or more identical processor cores installed together in a single integrated circuit (IC) chip, generally containing all the logic required to execute one instruction multiple times per clock cycle
What is a Core?
A device used for data storage that includes a flash memory and an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface
What is a USB Flash drive?
It will keep your processor cool and running.
What is a System Cooling System?
To press the left button on the mouse and release it (usually your middle finger, if you are right handed)
What is Left-Clicking?
A numbering scheme in which there are only two possible values for each digit -- 0 or 1 -- and is the basis for all binary code used in computing systems
What is a Binary System?
A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power
What is a Micro-Transistor?