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| How many vertical lines on a sheet of paper? |
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| standard dimensions of a sheet of paper |
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| How many spaces or strokes does it take to be considered a word? |
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keyboard, punch card, microphone, touch
screens, mouse, joysticks, disk drives, tapes, wands, disks, scanners, light pens,
trackball, CD ROM, modem, and fax machines. |
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the main device for entering information such as letters or numbers
into the computer; it allows the user to instruct the computer to do something specific. |
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a pointing device used to maximize the benefits of a graphical user
interface. A mouse has 1 to 5 buttons that can trigger various tasks by a single click or double click |
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an input device that reads text and graphics, and images them directly
into the computer. Scanners use OCR, or optical character recognition, to read
characters and convert optical images into electrical signals for the computer. |
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printers, disks, monitors, tapes, speakers,
modems, and fax machines. |
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| two most common categories of printers |
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peripheral output devices that print output to paper by striking
the ribbon to squeeze ink onto the paper. A DMP, or dot matrix printer, is an example of
an impact printer. |
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peripheral output devices that print output to paper without
striking the paper. Examples of non-impact printers are laser printers that burn the
letters on the paper, and inkjet printers that spray ink onto the paper. |
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| Output displayed on a monitor |
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| A pixel, short for “picture element” |
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the smallest element of information that can
be displayed or printed. |
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is a measure of the quality of the output from the printer. The
greater the number of DPI, the better the quality of the print. |
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| stands for pixels per inch. |
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an output device that resembles a small TV and is used to display
images generated by the computer. |
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the quality of the image generated on the computer monitor; it is the
measurement of the space between pixels displayed on the monitor. |
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a part of the computer that is used for passing data in and out of a
computing device and is usually used to link a printer, mouse, or a modem to your
computer. Ports are normally located in the back of the computer. |
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| Some common storage devices |
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USB drives, CD’s, DVD’s, external hard drives,
disks, tapes, and wrist watches. |
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a large capacity storage device usually located inside of the
computer system. |
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| The purpose of a disk drive |
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to be able to read information from and/or write
information to a disk. |
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| a unit of storage space on a disk. |
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| a catalog for files that are stored on the hard disk of the computer. |
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| CD-ROM, or compact disk read-only memory disk, |
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a form of optical data
storage technology that uses disk formats identical to audio compact disks; a CD can
usually hold about 650 megabytes. |
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a peripheral device used to burn or write information onto a CD.
95. A DVD ROM, or digital videodisk read-only media, is a form of storage that can hold
over 4 gigabytes of data. |
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a technique used to considerably reduce the size of a file without
losing any of the original information; the compression process alters the content of the
file but does not damage it. This process is also known as stuffing or zipping. |
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the reversing of the compression process, also known as
unstuffing or unzipping. |
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| two types of file systems |
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| FAT32, or file allocation table |
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is a file system developed by Microsoft and was the
primary version of consumer versions of Windows operating systems until the release of
Windows Me. Because this file system is relatively uncomplicated, it’s supported by
virtually all operating systems for personal computers. |
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| NTFS, or New Technology File System, |
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is the standard file system for Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. It supercedes FAT as thepreferred file system for Windows because it improves performance, reliability, and disk
space utilization. |
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| The letter of the alphabet that usually identifies the floppy disk drive |
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| The letter of the alphabet that usually identifies the hard disk drive |
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| The letter of the alphabet that usually identifies the CD ROM drive |
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| three levels of programming languages. |
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1. Machine Language uses
1’s and 0’s. 2. Assembly Language uses abbreviations rather than 1’s and 0’s
(mnemonics). 3. High Level Language uses English like words. Some programming
languages are FoxPro, Fortran, Cobol, PLI, RPG, Logo, Pilot, Basic, Pascal, APL, GW
Basic, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, and Visual Basic, PHP, Java, Python, and SQL. |
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