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| An electronic device designed to accept data, preform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations |
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| Adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit |
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| Computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user |
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| A thumb-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device |
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| Central processing unit: the key component of a computer system, which contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute program instructions |
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| A computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case |
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| A lever resembling this, used to control movement of a cursor or other graphic element for video games and computer graphics |
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| A component, as a CRT, with a screen for viewing data at a computer terminal |
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| An output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data |
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| A measure of storage capacity equal to one billion bytes |
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