Is a complete computation engine fabricated on a silicon chip
What is a processor?
100
how long it takes to complete a machine cycle
How is the speed of the processor measured?
100
List of recepients
What is a data file
200
is temporary output that can be seen from a monitor or heard from a speaker.
What is Softcopy output?
200
Impact and Non-impact printers.
What are the categories of printers?
200
IT interprets and carries out basic instructions that operates a computer
What is A CPU?
200
I-Time and E-Time
What is the machine cycle made up of?
200
Original document
What is a source file?
300
output is a permanent readable printed copy of output; usually on paper, through a printer
What is hard copy output?
300
These printers are similar to typewriters. Impact printers form characters by striking a hammer or pin against an inked ribbon, which presses the character on to the paper.
What is impact printer?
300
Figuring out what the program is telling the computer to do
What is decoding?
300
Creating more than one letter using merge feilds
What is mail merge?
400
is the information that has been processed by the computer and presented in a way that we can understand; through an output device.
What is Output?
400
Non-impact printers form characters and other images through various technologies, namely: heat, laser, photography and inkjet.
What is non impact printer?
400
Control Unit
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Registers
What are the components of a CPU?
400
Execution
What does the E in E-Time stands for?
400
Connects the source file to the data file
What is the purpose of the merge fields?
500
Text
Graphics
Audio (sound)
Video
Examples of output
500
They are extremely slow
Noisy
Poor quality graphics
Disadvantages of impact printers
500
Controls input an output devices
Reads and interprets programs intructions