Inside a Computer
Measuring
Acronyms
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Potpourri
100

The part that houses long-term storage for the system

What is a hard drive/SSD/HDD?

100

The measuring unit for a hard drive's capacity

What are bytes? (kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, etc. work too)

100

VR

What is virtual reality?

100

Size of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020's order of magnitude (B, KB, MB, GB, TB, etc.)

What are gigabytes?

100

Our grade and period

What is 8F? (or whatever Mr. V says for this class)

200

Supplies power to the entire computer from wall power generally

What is a Power Supply (or PSU?)
200
RAM's measuring unit for memory capacity

What are bytes? (megabyte, kilobytes, gigabyte, etc.)

200

TB

What is terabyte?

200

Owner of Microsoft

Who is Bill Gates?

300

The circuit board that you put the parts onto

What is a motherboard?

300

The unit to measure how much power a computer uses or how much a PSU supplies to the rest of the computer

What are watts?

300

MHz

What is megahertz?

300

The programming language that is named after a type of coffee

What is Java? (JavaScript is incorrect because it's named after the programming language Java, not the coffee)

400

Where you house everything in a PC

What is a computer case?

400
The unit of measurement for upload internet speeds, unless you have a NASA supercomputer

What are megabits per second (Mbps)? (MBps is incorrect here, not megabytes or bytes)

400

Malware

What is malicious software?

400

Invented the remote control

Who is Nikola Tesla?

500

The part that the CPU contains (usually there are 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, etc. of them)

What are cores?

500

1 Hertz for a CPU's meaning

What is 1 CPU cycle per second?

500

WYSIWYG (text editor type, generally)

What is "what you see is what you get?"

500

Considered the father of computer science

Who is Alan Turing?