Motherboards
The full name of BIOS.
What is Basic Input Output Systems?
A CPU's full name.
What is a Central Processing Unit?
A stack of tracks in a Hard Drive is called this.
What is a Cylinder?
A device that introduces data to a computer.
What is an input device?
The CMD prompt for listing directories.
What is ls?
This port was the first, common way for someone to install add-on controller cards, but was eventually superseded.
What is a PCI slot?
A computer whizzes flex about how much faster his computer runs than anyone else's is enabled by this manual change to the CPU's frequency.
What is Overclocking?
Used to detect bad sectors, and prevent its bigger brother from using these bad sectors.
What is Low-Level Formatting?
An older connection for keyboards that shares its name with a nostalgic game console.
What is a PS2 connection?
The CMD prompt to change the working directory.
What is cd?
A four-pin connector put on ice due to the depreciation in use of the floppy drive.
What is a Berg connector?
Allows the CPU to appear as multiple CPUs to both the OS and the user enabling multitasking through different programs.
What is Virtualization?
What is a read/write head?
A keyboard with electrical contacts held apart by an actuator also praised for its ambient clacking sounds.
What is a mechanical keyboard?
The CMD prompt to determine a file's type.
What is file?
Be careful when disconnecting the associated cable from this motherboard-sidewall port or your internet will be loose because of a broken clip.
What is an Ethernet Port?
Not to be confused with this famous golf tour, this type of CPU packaging has the connecting pins located on the bottom of the processor chip itself.
What is a PGA or Pin-Grid Array?
Contains the partition table and a small amount of executable code that tells the BIOS where to find the operating system and also shares part of a name and inspiration with the villain of Tron (1982).
What is the MBR or Master Boot Record?
A form of information transmittance that uses the crimson portion of the light spectrum, and most commonly found in a living room remote.
What is Infrared Transmittance?
The CMD prompt to search for files in a directory hierarchy.
What is find?
The first type of reversible 24-pin USB that has products from USB 2.0 to the USB 4.0.
What is USB Type C?
A fundamental technique that the CPU uses to guess the next data element with 90% accuracy that has revolutionized the speed at which computers can operate.
What is Multiple Branch Prediction?
A newer version of SCSI disc interfaces with quite an attitude.
What is SAS or Serial Attached SCSI?
This form of touch screens has an electrically charged layer, that when touched, breaks charge at a location for the screen to sense.
What are capacitance touch screens?
The CMD prompt to estimate a file's space usage.
What is du?