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| How much bytes does a kilobyte have? |
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| Called random access memory, or RAM, consists of electronic components that temporarily store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, date needed by those instructions, & result of processed data [info]. |
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| How much bytes does a megabyte have? |
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| Equals one million bytes. |
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| Equals one million bytes. |
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| How does an impact printer work? |
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| Print by striking an inked ribbon against the paper. One type of impact printer used with personal computers is the dot-matrix printer. |
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| How does a non-impact printer work? |
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| Ink-jet printers and laser printers, form characters by means other than striking a ribbon against paper. Examples are, ink-jet and laser. A laser is 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 photo conductor drum, forming the images to be printed. |
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| Form characters or graphic by using a tiny nozzle that sprays tiny drops of ink onto the page |
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| Number of pagers per minute. |
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| What are display devices? |
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| Output devices that visually conveys text, graphics, and video information. |
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| What's the definition of a monitor? |
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| A display device that is packaged as a separate unit. |
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| What is a flat panel monitor? |
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| Also referred to as a LCD monitor, the most popular type of flat panel monitor, uses a liquid display crystal, similar to a digital watch. |
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| Cathode Ray Tube, the surface of the screen of either is composed of individual pixels. |
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| The little images that makeup a picture/graphic. |
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| This is used to store instructions, data, and information when they are not being used in memory. |
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| The process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors so the computer can locate the 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 that break that tracks into small arcs. Two types of magnetic disks are floppy & hard disks. |
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| A storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that magnetically store data, instructions & information. |
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| Duplicate of a file, program, or disk that you can use in case the original is lost, damaged or destroyed. |
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| How much can a floppy disk store up too? |
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| Or diskette, portable storage medium. Can typically store up to 1.44 megabytes of data. |
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| A device that can read from and write on a floppy disk. Drives can either be built into the system unit or external the system unit. |
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