Terms for Test 2-BCS-1
Terms / DefinitionAll-in-one / Hardware that has the capability to copy, scan and fax documents.
CD ROM / Reads from a CD (input) and may be output if it is also a CD burner.
Disk Drive / Reads from a CD Rom or a floppy disk (May copy to a disk--input/output device).
Flash Drive / Hardware used for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital hardware. Can hold between 64 MB and 32 GB of data. In comparing a floppy disk with a flash drive—the most a super floppy disk could hold was 120 MB.
Gigabyte / Approximately a billion bytes (or 1,000 megabytes)
Hard Disk / A fixed, large–capacity magnetic storage medium for computer data. (Inside a computer) Word processing data is saved here.
Ink-Jet Printer / A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink.
Input device / The hardware that is used to pass information into the computer.
Laser Printer / A printer that uses both laser and photographic technology to produce high quality output.
Megabyte / Approximately a million bytes. (a byte is a unit of measurement)
Modem / The device that allows your computer to talk to other computers over a telephone or cable line.
Output device / The hardware that receives and displays information coming from the computer.
Random Access Memory (RAM) / Temporary storage memory chips that form the computer’s primary work space; contents are lost if the power is disrupted.
Read Only Memory (ROM) / Storage memory chips that maintain their contents if the power is disrupted. This form of primary storage chips have their stored content entered at the time of their fabrication and can be written to only once.
Scanner / A computer input device that can read text, images, and bar codes and translate them into digital code.
USB port / Universal serial bus allows interface of peripheral devices (flash drives can be plugged in and connected to your PC)