computers use RAM, or Random Access Memory. This uses memory chips and is the fastest but most expensive type of storage.
What is the main memory?
100
a program that conducts the communication between the various pieces of hardware like the video card, sound card, printer, the motherboard and the applications.
What is operating systems
200
memory
What is an example of computer software
200
Keyboard, pointing devices, mouse, game devices, pen input, touchscreen
What are input devices?
200
text documents, graphics, and multimedia
What are categories of output?
200
Of the various types of Auxiliary Storage, the types used most often involve some type of magnetic disk. These come in various sizes and materials, as we shall see. This method uses magnetism to store the data on a magnetic surface.
What is magnetic disks
200
It comes in two versions - Home and Professional. The Professional version contains all the features of the Home version plus more business features, like networking and security features
What is Windows XP
300
Screen
What is a piece of computer hardware?
300
Converts pictures, drawings, etc. to digital signals
What is graphic and digital tablets?
300
LQ Letter Quality = as good as best typewriter output
NLQ Near Letter Quality = nearly as good as best typewriter output
Draft used internally or for a test print
What is print quality
300
It looks just like an audio CD. Almost all software is being distributed on CDs now. The price of the drives that read the disks (but can't write one) has dropped low enough that a new system will come with a CD drive unless you go to some effort to avoid it! Such drives will also play your audio CDs, if you have a sound card and speakers.
What is CD ROM?
300
an upgrade of Windows NT rather than of Windows 98.
What is Windows 2000
400
Laptops, Desktops, Tablets.
What are 3 types of computers?
400
The user slides finger across the pad and the cursor follows the finger movement. For clicking there are buttons, or you can tap on the pad with a finger
What is a glidepad
400
sends data only 1 bit at a time
Printer can be up to 1000 feet away from the computer.
Maximum data transfer speed = 115 kilobits/s (.115Mbits/s)
What is cable connections
400
To make an optical disk, tiny lasers create peaks and valleys in a plastic layer on a circular disk. In the device that reads the optical disk these peaks and valleys are read as 1's and 0's by shining another laser on the disk.
What is optical disks
400
an upgrade of Windows 98, release date Sept. 14, 2000. The system resources required for this operating system are significantly higher than previous versions of Windows.
What is Windows ME
500
runs as a network of computers. It handles the sharing equipment like and the communication between computers on the network.
what is a server?
500
Instead of moving the whole mouse around, the user rolls the trackball only, which is on the top or side.
What is a track ball
500
Printer must be within 5 meters (16.5 feet) of the computer, when connecting straight to the computer.
[You can hook up several 5 m. cables and USB hubs in a chain - up to 25 meters.]
Maximum data transfer speed: 12 megabits/s (1.5 MBYTES/s)
What is a USB cable?
500
These consist of 1 or more metal platters which are sealed inside a case.
What is hard disks
500
an operating system for client-server type networks. The latest version of NT has a user interface that is practically identical to Windows 95. Since Windows NT is designed for the higher demands of networks, it has higher demands itself for disk space and memory