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| Print by striking a inked ribbon against the printer. One type of impact printer is the dot- matrix printer. |
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| Print by means other than striking a ribbon against a printer. Examples include ink-jet and laser printers. |
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| Form characters or graphic by using a nozzle that sprays tiny drops of ink onto the page. |
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| A high-speed, high-quality nonimpact printer that employs copier-machine technology. It converts data from the computer into a beam of light that is focused on a photoconductor drum, forming images to be printed. |
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| An output device that visually conveys text, graphics, and video information. |
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| A monitor is a display device that is packaged as a separate unit. |
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| The LCD the most popular type of flat panel monitor uses a liquid display to produce images on the screen. |
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| Cathode ray tube the surface of the screen is composed in pixels. (so are flat panel monitors) |
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| Individual picture element. |
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| Used to store instructions, data, and information when they are not being used in memory. |
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| Use magnetic particles to store items such as data, instructions, and information on a disk's surface. Floppy, and hard drive. |
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| Dividing the disk into tracks and sectors, so the computer can locate data, instructions, and information on the disk. |
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| A narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of the disk. |
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| Pie shaped sections, which break the tracks into small arcs. |
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| 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, usually resulting in a loss of data or sometime the entire drive. |
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| A duplicate of a file, program, or disk that you can use incase the original is lost damaged or destroyed. |
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| Also call diskettes they are an inexpensive portable storage medium. The most widely use floppy disk is 3.5 inches wide and can typically store up to 1.44 MB. |
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| A device that can read and write from a floppy disk. They are ether built in or external units. |
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| The time required to access and retrieve the data. |
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