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Communications
Hardware and other things that you can touch
Data Storage and transfer
Operating System
Misc. Terms to remember
100
LAN
What is a local area network
100
Sound Card
What is the hardware attached to the motherboard that creates sound/music?
100
Optical disks that can store up to 17 GB with things like movies
What are DVDs
100
Small program built into the computer that isn't dependent on the operating system.
What is the BIOS
100
LCD
What is Liquid Crystal Display or What is the type of monitor most commonly used for laptop computers?
200
Broadband
What is the connection that uses dedicated telephone lines or cable tv equipment to maintain constant connection
200
Video Card
What is the hardware attached to the motherboard that creates video/images?
200
The mechanism that stores software and information
What is the Hard Drive
200
OS created for IBMs first personal computers
MS-DOS
200
QWERTY
What is the most used modern-day keyboard layout?
300
Modem
What is the hardware that converts telephone, satellite or cable signals into information?
300
RAM
What is the term for Random Access Memory?/ What is the memory used to temporarily store information?
300
Small removable devices used for storage in cameras and phones
What are Memory cards
300
Modern OS that uses interactive screens with pictures
What is a GUI (graphical user interface)
300
A computer's startup process
What is booting up
400
Routers
What is the device used to connect to computers/network to shared resources (printers, internet, etc.)
400
Monitor
What is the hardware that outputs/displays the information from the PC?
400
Gigabyte
What is about a billion bytes?
400
A proprietary OS that doesn't work on Windows based computers
What is MAC OS (Apple)
400
Uses the same technology as photocopiers which transfers a fine powder to the paper
What is the a laser printer
500
WAN
What is the Wide Area Network (connect computers wide geographical area)
500
Common input devices are (name 2)
What are the keyboard and mouse
500
A terabyte.
What is Trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1024 gigabytes.
500
Software that works on both Windows and Mac computers is called this
What is cross-platform
500
A common operating systems for phones are
What is a Mac OS and Android