Vocabulary A
Specially formulated compound to impart dye to paper through an electrographic process (used by laser printers and photocopiers).
What is Toner?
One of the first types of flash memory card.
What is SD (Secure Digital) Card?
A display screen that is responsive to touch input.
What is Touchscreen?
This can be used to record video. There are many types, from devices built into laptops to standalone units. (it is commonly used for the face)
What is a Webcam?
It is a high capacity units typically providing persistent mass storage for a PC (saving data when the computer is turned off).
What is HDD (Hard Disk Drive)?
This is similar to a ROM chip in that it retains information even when power is removed, but it adds flexibility in that it can be reprogrammed with new contents quickly.
What is Flash Memory?
Standard "driver" model for interfacing scanner hardware with applications software.
What is TWAIN?
Driver model and API (Application Programming Interface) for interfacing scanner hardware with applications software on Windows PCs.
What is WIA (Windows Image Acquisition)?
In order to share files and programs, computers can either be connected to each other (across a direct link or via a network) or must be able store and retrieve files from an interim storage medium.
What does Removable Media do?
This was the main disk interface for PCs.
What is ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)?
A drive that is able to write data to a recordable CD disc only once, although the data can be read many times.
What is WORM (Write Once, Read Many) Drive?
This discs offer higher capacities (4.7 GB per layer) than the preceding CD-ROM format.
What is DVD (Digital Video/Versatile Disk)?
Standard IDE/ATA uses parallel data transmission. It allows for faster transfer rates and longer, more compact cabling (it features a 7-pin data connector).
What is SATA (Serial ATA)
A flash memory card with USB adapter.
What is Thumb drive?
In Microsoft terminology, the partition that contains the operating system (that is, the \WINDOWS folder) is referred to as the boot partition.
What is Boot Partition?
They can be used for data transfer and archiving. Recordable ones are available in two general forms: those that can be written to once and read many times and those that can be written to and erased.
What are Recordable CD Drives?
Latest generation of optical drive technology, with disc capacity of 25 GB per layer. Transfer rates are measured in multiples of 36 MBps.
What are Blu-ray
The DOS file naming standard - an eight-character ASCII name followed by a three-character file extension (which identifies the file type).
What are 8.3 Filenames?
This is an optical storage technology. The discs can normally hold 700 MB of data or 80 minutes of audio data.
What is CD-ROM (Compact Disc - Read Only Memory)?
To send or store a file it often needs to be compressed in some way, to reduce the amount of space it takes up on the storage media or the bandwidth required to send it over a network.
What is Compression Software?