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System Unit
Microprocessors
Instructions & Bus Lines
System Boards & Expansion
Memory
100
System board, microprocessor and memory
What is components?
100
Brains of the computer
What is the microprocessor?
100
Group 8 bits
What is a byte?
100
Also known as the motherboard or main board
What is a system board?
100
Holding area for data, instructions, and information
What is memory?
200
Input and output devices such as a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, all located outside of the this device.
What is a desktop computer?
200
Specialty chips designed to improve specific computing operations
What is a coprocessor?
200
Connects parts of the CPU to each other
What is a bus line?
200
Audio input from a microphone and convert it into a form that can be processed by the computer
What is a sound card?
200
Volatile storage
What is RAM?
300
Monitor is attached by hinges
What is a laptop?
300
Plastic cards the size of a regular credit card
What is a smart card?
300
How a computer provides information to communicate
What is character encoding?
300
Used to mount micro chips
What are carrier packages?
300
Used for startup instructions
What is Flash Memory?
400
Smartphones are one the most commonly used of these.
What is a handheld computer?
400
Contains as many as seventy separate processors
What are luxury cars?
400
Sixteen bit coding scheme
What is a unicode?
400
Tiny circuit boards etched onto squares of sand-like material called silicon
What is a chip?
400
Not volatile and can be changed by the user.
What is ROM?
500
Smaller, less expensive, and less powerful
What is a netbook?
500
Number of times the CPU can fetch and process data or instructions in a second
What is clock speed?
500
External device that is connected together along with a system board
What is a USB?
500
Allow computers to connect without cables
What are wireless network cards?
500
Improves processing by acting as a temporary high-speed holding area
What is cache?