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Indicates where the characters you type will appear. |
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Uses a LED light to track mouse movemement. |
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Uses a laser to detect movement. |
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A type of mouse with a ball ontop used to scroll. |
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Important to use when entering input into a touchpad computer. |
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Carthode Ray Tube, original monitors that were bulky. |
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What type of screen to handheld devices use? |
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Organic Light Emitting Diodes |
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Two most common resolutions for monitors. |
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measure of image clarity. |
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Refers to the number of colors a monitor or graphics card can display. |
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A printer that sprays ink onto a paper |
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Uses technology that creates dots of light on a light sensitive drum. |
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Fine powder that creates images |
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Quality of the printed image or text off a printer |
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Dots per inch, a good measure of printer resolution |
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Normal Quality printers have a dpi of roughly ______ |
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Good Quality printers have a DPI that is roughly _____ |
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2400 - 4800 dots per inch |
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Pages Per Minute, a test of how fast a printer can print up pages |
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Typical Speed of a printer |
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Memory of a laser printer |
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Can print on both sides of the paper |
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The amount of time in which a device is used |
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How to share a printer with multiple users |
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Group the users as a network and enable the use of the printer to be wirelessly |
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Connects directly to a network and not just a computer |
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Used for printing more photos |
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Made up of a storage medium and storage device |
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Devices you can use instead of a hard drive |
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CD, DVD, BD drives, USB drives, solid state drives, and solid state card readers |
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Collision when reading the hard drive and it skips over a dust particle |
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Do iPods use hard drives? |
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The time in milliseconds that data can be retrieved from storage medium
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Amount of data that a storage device can move onto a storage medium |
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Has the ability to jump to the requested data. An example of this would be hard drives. |
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Reads data from begining to end looking for file. An example of this is a tape drive |
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Are used by hard drives and tapes, magnetizes particles on disks surface. |
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Stores data as microscopic light and dark spots on disks surface |
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Parts of an optical storage device |
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- Polycarbonate Layer
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Stores data in a nonvolatile, erasable, low storage chip. |
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Consists of a tape drive for the storage device and a tape for the storage medium |
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Removable magnetic tape similar to cassete tapes |
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Non formal: Retrieving data |
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reading, loding, or opening |
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Digital video or versatile disk |
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CD can hold how much data? |
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DVD can hold how much data? |
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How much data can be saved on BDs? |
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How does the laser that reads BDs and DVDs differ? |
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BD - blue ray
DVD - red ray |
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Secure Digital cards, have a faster data transfer and have a cryptographic cypher to protect data |
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Required to read solid-state storage cards |
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Connector that passes data between a computer and a peripheral device |
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Small circuit board that helps computer communicate with a peripheral device |
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How the computer controls the peripheral device, it sends data over these circuits |
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Long and narrow socket on the motherboard where you plug the wanted expansion bus into. |
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Sets up communication between computer and the device. |
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Can I just unplug a USB device when I'm done with it. |
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(Yes) No, you first want to use the safe to unplug feature in Windows |
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Throwing away computers creates _______ or _______. |
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How many tons of e-garbage is thrown away each year? |
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How many tons of technotrash are in landfills in the United States today? |
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Three of the most dangerous substances found in computer parts |
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Mercury, Phosphorus, and lead |
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