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Introduction to Computers
The Internet
Input/Output
Data
Data Storage
100
is an electronic device that processes data, converting it into information that is useful to people.
What is a computer?
100
Software application designed to find hypertext documents on the Web and then open the documents on the users computer.
What is a Web Browser?
100
the most common type of flat display.
What is a liquid crystal display (LCD)?
100
It has only two values, computers are said to function in base 2.
What is binary number system?
100
The physical materials on which data is stored.
What is storage media?
200
a PC that is desgined to sit on (or under) a desk or table.
What is a desktop computer?
200
The hypertext transfer protocol uses internet addresses in a special format called uniform resource locator
What is URL?
200
The sharpness or clarity of an image.
What is resolution?
200
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
What is ASCII?
200
The process of mapping a disk.
What is formatting?
300
a set of instructions that makes the computer perform tasks.
What is software?
300
A company that provides local or regional access to the Internet Backbone.
What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?
300
Create an image directly on the paper by spraying ink through tiny nozzles.
What is an ink jet printer?
300
data bits transmitted one at a time through a single wire.
What is a serial interface?
300
the technology for shrinking the size of a file so it takes p less space on the disk.
What is File compression?
400
the most common measurment unit for describing a computer's memory.
What is a byte?
400
Is the internet tool used to copy files from one computer to another.
What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?
400
Prints objects in three-dimensions. Usually plastic form.
What is a 3-D printer?
400
Historically is the leading provider of chips for PCs.
What is Intel?
400
Connects the disk drive to the computer's bus, acting as an interface between the town and enabling the drive to exchange data with other services.
What is a disk controller?
500
A type of monitor that displays text or icons you can touch.
What is touchscreen?
500
Special Words accepted by search engines.
What are Boolean Operators.
500
This are created during the generation, transmission, and use of low-frequency electrical power.
What is an Electromagnetic Field?
500
A relatively new bus found on all our machines today.
What is Universal Serial Bus (USB)?
500
Is an improved version of an older drive-interface standard, called integrated drive electronics (IDE).
What is Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE)?