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Storage
Ports and Stuff
I'm board
Misc
Shortie
100
This helps store your data and spins right-round baby right-round.
What is a platter.
100
This is the rectangle shaped and most common port used by devices on computers right now.
What is USB?
100
This is the spinal cord of the computer.
What is Logic Board?
100
This is how a computer "sweats"
What is cooling system?
100
When its shortened it's RAM and stores data for quick use.
What is Random Access Memory?
200
Stores data for quicker access than the other types of storage types.
What is RAM?
200
These are the ports used only by Apple's iOS and Macs.
What are Lightning and Thunderbolt?
200
This is the other name used for Logic Board.
What is the Motherboard?
200
You can plug this piece of hardware into your logic board to add extra audio functionality to your computer.
What is an audio card?
200
When shortened its NIC.
What is Network Interface Controller?
300
This stores data in sequential blocks that occasionally needs reformatted.
What is a Hard Drive Disk?
300
This is the port used to connect a cable to your computer in order to directly network it.
What is an ethernet port?
300
This pulls instructions, decodes, and executes them.
What is Control Unit?
300
This is the hardware category that displays belong to.
What is Visual Display Unit?
300
When shortened it's GPU
What is Graphics Processing Unit?
400
This comes in two types Static and Dynamic.
What is RAM?
400
This is the term used to describe all of the external things you can plug in or attach to a computer to gain new or better functionality.
What is peripheral?
400
This is the term used for retrieving instructions.
What is Fetch?
400
Part of the cooling system, this dissipates heat produced by the computer.
What is Heat Sink?
400
When shortened its CPU
What is Central Processing Unit?
500
This is what it's called when a Hard Drive Disk stops itself from spinning to protect the data when you may have dropped the computer.
What is parked?
500
These are the terms used to describe when something is transmitted with actual signals or when its transmitted with only 0's and 1's.
What are analog and digital?
500
This is when execution results are placed in memory
What is Writeback?
500
This is the conversion done by the Power Supply.
What is AC/DC?
500
When shortened its ALU and calculates for the processor.
What is Arithmetic Logic Unit?