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| ATA (Advanced Technology Attachement) |
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| An acrronym for ; The disk drive standar commonly known as Interfrated Dive Electonic. |
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| An acronym for basic input/output the set of essential software routines that test a PC at start-up and staret the OS |
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| the basis for the standard PC displays screen |
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EEPROM
(electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) |
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| An acronym for a type of EPROM tha can be errasewith an electrical signal |
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EPROM
(erasable programmable read-only memory) |
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| Acronym for ; a type of memory chip that can be reprogrammed after manufacture. |
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| a circuit card that is plugged into a PC's bus to add extra functions |
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| A PC and digital video seroal bus interface standard offering high-speed communications. also known as IEE 1394 |
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| The science and technology of authentictin a person's identity by measuring physiological features |
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| The science and technology of authentictin a person's identity by measuring physiological features |
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| the set of hardware lines used to transfer date among the comoponents of a PC |
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| A device that sends and recives date throught coaxial cables |
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| A type of camera tha storesphotographic images electronically ratehr than on film |
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| A camera that captures and stores images on a digital medium. Also known as a camcorder |
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| A scanner that reads human fingerprints for comparisonto to a database of stored fingerprints images |
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| software routines stored in read-onlymemory (ROM) |
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| A transfomer in a CRT monitor that generates up to 20,000 volts |
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| The operating system running on a physical machine that executes virtualization software. |
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| A device that reads datea from and writes data to one of more inflexible platters. |
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| A device that absorbs and dissipate heat created by an electronic device, such as a microprocessor |
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| an operatin system running on a physical machine that executes virtualization software |
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| an area where date can be stored and retreived. |
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| a central processing unit (CPU) on a single chip |
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| short for modulator / demodulator: a communications device that enables a PC to transmit data over a standard telephone line. |
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| the main circut board cataing the primary components of a PC |
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| network interface card (NIC) |
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| An expansion card used to connect a computer to a local area network |
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| A disk drive that reads and may write data to optical (compact) discs. |
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| An input/output connector for a parallel interface device |
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PATA
(Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) |
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| is the same as ATA, which was renamed when SATA was intraduced |
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| progamable read Only memory |
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| RAM (Random Access Memory) |
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| A semiconductor circuit in which data is permanently installed by the manufactured |
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| An industry accepted standard for serial communications. |
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| a small amoun of high speed memory |
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| a semiconductor circuit in which data is permanently installed by the manufacturer. |
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| SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) |
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| which transferes data serially to and from the hard drive |
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| SCSI (small computersystem interface) |
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| it is use to connect its device s to PC's |
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| An expansion card taht supports the recording and playback of sound |
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| same as motherboard -the main circut board cataing the primary components of a PC |
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| a device for reading and writing datea on mangnetic tapes |
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| a pointingdevice that responds to movement of a finger on a surface. |
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| a pinting device with a stationary housing that contains a ball you roll with your hand . |
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| Universal Serial Bus (USB) |
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| a serial bus that connects devices to a PC. USB support hot plugging |
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| Electronic components that generat the video signal sent to a video diplay. |
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| a software implementation of a machine (ex: computer)that executes programs like a physical machine |
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| systems that appears to be real but are actually simulations |
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| a device that supp0oerts a wiresless connection through a radio connection to a wireless LAN |
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