Darby Huskins Novmber 9, 2010
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- Hardware
- Physical parts of a computer.
- Software
- Instuctions on a disk that make the computer work (tells the computer what to do)
- Computer
- Machine that preforms four functions: input, processing, storage, and output.
- Input
- Data entered into the computer.
- Output
- Data processed by the computer.
- Moniter
- the tv like screen, an output device.
- CPU
- The main componet that preforms all of the processing-also known as a microprocesser.
- Mircoprocesser
- A chip that tells your computer to do these four functions: input, output, storage, processing
- Keyboarding
- A input device to enter data into the computer.
- Mouse
- A hand-held device
- Printer
- An ouput device used to print on paper
- Speaker
- An output device used to print on paper
- disk drive
- A device that reads data of a disk and/or writes data to a disk
- Port
- a place on the computer where cable can be attached
- Softcopy
- Output from a computer that can be seen or heard, but not touched
- Hardcopy
- Output from a computer that cn be touched.
- Printout
- Output from a computer
- Perpheral
- Device that can be attached to a computer.
- Secondary storage
- devices that can be used to permentaly store your work.