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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ISA | original bus that was 8-16 bits. |
| MCA | 16-32 bit and obsolete due to high license fees |
| EISA | 32 bit bus that is fast and easy to configure |
| VESA | also known as VL bus and is obsolete due to no standard |
| PCI | 64 bit bus and it is the standard today |
| PCIe (express) | new technology replacing AGP and can transfer data 4GBs per second which is twice as fast and would run things like video capture cards. |
| PCMCIA | credit card size bus used in portable computers |
| AGP | not a "true" but since it only supports video |
| CD-ROM | optical drive that is designed to store computer data in the form of text and graphics on a disc. |
| CD-R | optical drive that is write once/read many storage that allows one-time recording on a disc. |
| CD-RW | optical driver that allows users with a cd recorder drive to create their own CDs from their desktop computers. |
| DVD | optical driver with high capacity data storage medium. |
| Main Frame | the first computers that are very large, usually the size of a room |
| Floppy Drive | developed by Sony and uses a hard plastic 3 ½” disk and held 1.44 mb information. |
| Hard drive | mechanism that controls the positioning, reading, and writing and furnishes the larges amount of data storage for a pc and measures speed in revolutions per minute |
| Super Floppy Drive | used 120mb disk in drive |
| ZIP Drives | high capacity, removable magnetic disks by IOMEGA that had two sizes 100mb and 250mb. |
| JAZ drives | higher capacity, higher performance drive that had two sizes 1 gb and 2gb. |
| Flash Drives | floppy drive replacement that was a small solid state memory stick. |
| USB | hot swappable port and can supply power from the computer to devices. |
| 1394 FireWire Port | serial data transfer for high speed devices used commonly with digital camcorder. |
| Serial port | an interface that can be used for serial communication in which only 1 bit is transmitted at a time. |
| Parallel port | an interface that connects an external device such as a printer. |
| CPU | responsible for all data processing or the brains of the computer. |
| ROM | information is written to a ROM chip when it is manufactured and cannot be erased and is considered permanent memory. |
| RAM | main system memory that is temporary memory. |
| DIP | original RAM memory that had 8 individual chips to store one byte of data. |
| SIPP | RAM memory that was consolidated into one board that plugged into the board with individual contact pins. |
| SIMM | RAM memory that had no individual contact pins but by a printed circuit board. |
| DIMM | RAM memory designed for Pentium and higher class computers that supports a 64 it bus. |
| RIMM | Pentium 4 memory that transfer data in 16 bit chunks. |
| Power Supply | Basic function is to convert AC to DC. |
| Monitor | display that provides instant feedback by showing you text and graphic images. |
| Scanner | digitizes an image or document. |
| Sound Card | expansion board that plugs into computer to give it audio capabilities. |
| Video Card | expansion board that plugs into computer to give it display capabilities. |
| RISC | a type of CPU architecture that recognizes a relatively limited number of instructions and designed to execute rapidly. |
| CISC | a type of CPU architecture that has hundreds of instructions |
| Solid State Hard Drives | hard drive that are very reliable and use less power and have no moving parts. |
| SRAM | memory used as cache memory |
| Form factor | case that will determine the size and shape of the motherboard |
| DDR3SDRAM | ram chip that has the fastest clock rate but consumers the least power and generates the least heat. |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks – technology that is best for driver redundancy and data protection |
| Output devices | headphones, monitor, printers |
| Input devices | digital camera, keyboard, biometric devices |
| EEPROM | ROM can be reprogrammed with software while it is still physically installed in computer. |
| Native resolution | is the number of pixels horizontally by the pixels vertically, such as 600x800. |
| DVD+/-R | optical disk that holds the most data (4GB) |
| Northbridge chip set | access to RAM and video card in this chipset |
| DMA | transfer data from main memory to a device without passing it through the CPU |
| IRQ | computer resource that are direct lines to the processor and are used by the computer components to request attention from the CPU |
| I/O address | address for input and output address to communicate with CPU |
| 1394a interface | is a port connector that uses 4 and 6 pins |
| SATA | data cable that has 7 conductors |
| PATA | data cable that has 40 and 80 conductors |
| Motherboard chip set | located on motherboard and limits maximum memory supported and type of connectors used. |
| Current form factors | ATX and BTX |
| Capture card | enables a video signal to be recorded to the computer hard drive. |
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