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Vocabulary!
What Does
It Do?
The User's
View!
Systems!
Random,
Miscellanous, and Ect.
100
Disk Operating System
What is D.O.S.
100
Shows information in text and pictures.
What is GUI?
100
The mesure of clarity on computer based on the samount of white space pixels thaat form the image.
What is dot pitch?
100
An operating system that uses the keyborad to type specific commands into the computer.
What is disk operating system?
100
A tablet that has some of the functionality of a computer and can complete some pen computing tasks.
What is Tablet PC?
200
Grapical User Interface (What does it stand for?)
GUI
200
Uses a microphone to pickup soundwaves and trasmits them into data on your computer.
What is speech recognition software?
200
The number of Distinct colors represented by hardware or software.
What is color depth?
200
A GUI computer that was launched after the Macintosh OS and is easier to use than a Macintosh.
What is Windows (OS)?
200
A special connection for video display controllers used in personal computer.
What is a VGA (Video Game Adapter)?
300
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (What does it stand for?)
MIDI
300
A standard interface for tranfering data between devices on a computer bus.
What is SCSI?
300
Technology for scaning documents so that records can be stored.
What are image processing systems?
300
The first GUI computer.
What is Xerox?
300
A special scanning device that can read pencil marks.
What is an OMR (Optical Mark Reader)?
400
Small Computer System Interface (What does it stand for?)
SCSI
400
Magnifies the screen so you can read the text more easily.
What is a screen-magnifier software?
400
The number of pixels displayed on the screen at any given time and is also used as a mesure of sharpnness of the gieven picture quality.
What is resolution?
400
The first commercial OS that used GUI.
What is Macintosh OS?
400
A computer that recognizes handwritting and lets you write with a pen.
What is pen computing?
500
Universal Product Code (What does it stand for?)
UPC
500
A printer that serves the purpose of specially printing pictures in a high quality.
What is a photo printer?
500
Determines how how the monitor produces colors
What is LCD?
500
A program that allows one computer to act like another by mimicing it.
What is an Emulator?
500
A standard character encoding. Widely used by Microsoft.
What is Unicode?