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| Also called random access memory ,or RAM, consists of electronic components that temporarily store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, data needed by those instructions, and results of processed data. |
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| Equals about one million bytes |
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| It is printed by striking a ribbon on a piece of paper. One example of this is a dot-matrix printer |
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| Print by means other than striking a ribbon against paper. Ex ink jet and laser printer |
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| Form characters or graphics by dropping drops of ink on paper |
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| A high speed, high quality nonimpact printer that employs copier-machine technology. It conveys data from the computer into a beam of light that is focused on a photoconductor drum, forming the images to be printed |
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| Number of Pages per Minute |
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| Output device that visually conveys digital information |
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| Monitor device that is packaged separately as a unit |
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| The most popular type of monitor that uses liquid crystal display to show images |
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| A monitor composed of pixels |
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| Individual picture element |
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| Used to store information, instructions, and data when they are not being used in memory |
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| Use magnetic particles to store items |
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| The process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors |
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| A narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the disk's surface |
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| Pie shaped sectors that breaks the disk down |
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| Also called a hard disk drive, is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that magnetically store data, instructions, and information. |
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| When a read / write head touches a platter resulting in loss of data or the entire drive. |
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| Duplicate of a file of a disk, file, or program just in case the original is lost, damaged, or destroyed |
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| An older form of magnetic storage an inexpensive portable storage medium. Also called diskettes and is most likely 3.5 inches wide and can hold up to 1.44 megabytes |
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| A device that can read from and write on a floppy disk. The can be in the hard drive or an external unit |
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