Basics
I/O
Storage
Software
Potluck
100
A device that accepts data, processes the data, and produces results
What is a computer?
100
An input device for moving the cursor whose name might interest you cat
What is a mouse?
100
a storage medium that uses particles arranged via magnetic fields to store data
What are magnetic disks?
100
software for the user to accomplish specific tasks
What is application software?
100
Represents 1 billion bytes
What is a gigabyte?
200
The person who is operating a computer
What is a user?
200
A display device technology that can be used to make flat panel monitors
What is LCD?
200
A small storage device that can hold 1.44 megabytes
What is a floppy disk?
200
A type of application software used to add, subtract, and perform other calculations on rows and columns of data
What is spreadsheet software?
200
The circuit board that all other computer components connect to
What is the motherboard?
300
The part of a computer that does the information processing, consisting of an ALU and control unit
What is the CPU?
300
A general type of printer that requires that something strike and inked ribbon
What is an impact printer?
300
a copy of data used in case the original is lost or destroyed
What is a backup?
300
The software used to control the operations of the computer
What is system software?
300
Business activities carried out online
What is electronic commerce?
400
The box-like case that houses the components of the computer
What is the system unit?
400
An input device often found on notebook computers instead of a mouse
What is a touchpad?
400
A type of small memory that has high capacity and no moving parts
What is flash memory?
400
Software used to create, edit, format and print documents
What is word processing software?
400
A printer that can produce high quality color images from digital cameras
What is a photo printer?
500
the memory that the computer uses to store instructions and data temporarily
What is RAM?
500
An input device with at least 101 pressable pieces
What is a keyboard?
500
a type of optical storage that can be written to, erased, and rewritten to and has a capacity of approximately 700MB
What is a CDRW?
500
a system with visual cues and graphics to represent items, data and actions
What is a GUI?
500
the full name of an internet addres
What is uniform resource locator?
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