List of terms

 

 

 

Accumulator

Acoustic modem

ALU

Analog transmission

Asynchronous transmission

Bar code reader

Basic html formats (bold face, italics, underline)

Baud rate vs bits per second

Binary to decimal conversion

Bit

Bus

Bus network

Byte

Cache

CD-R

CD-ROM

CD-RW

Coaxial cables (for network)

Commercial software

Connector

Control unit

Custom software

Cylinder recording

DAT

Data

Decimal to binary conversion

Demodulation

Desktop computer

Digital transmission

Direct connect modem

Diskette

Dot matrix printer

Dpi

Duplex

DVD-RAM

DVD-ROM

Email

Embedded computers

Expansion slot

Fiber optic transmission (for network)

File server

Flatbed scanner

ftp (know what it is)

Half-duplex

Handheld scanner

Hard disk

Hardware

Head switching

hoteling

HTML (what is it)

http protocol (what it is)

Information

Ink jet printer

Input

Keyboard

LAN

Laptop computer

Laser printer

Magnetic ink character reader

MAN

Microphone

Microwave transmission (for network)

Minicomputer

Modem – method of generating a binary 1

Modulation

Monitor

Monitor resolution

Motherboard

Motherboard gif from class page by lecture 3

Mouse

Network

Network hub

Notebook computer

Optical disk

Optical mark reader

Output

Parallel port (recognize, and how many devices can be connected)

PC

Peripheral

Personal digital assistant

Pixel

Plotter

Port

Port

Ports gif from class page by lecture 3

Pos terminal

Primary memory

Printer

Public domain software

RAM

Read write heads

Register

Resolution

Ring network

ROM

Satellite transmission (for network)

Scanners

SCSI port (recognize, and how many devices can be connected)

Secondary storage

Sector recording

Seek time

Serial port (recognize, and how many devices can be connected)

Shareware

Sheetfed scanner

Simplex

Slot

Software

Software applications

Software piracy

Star network

Supercomputer

Synchronous transmission

System software

Telecommuting

Telnet (know what it is)

Terminal

Timesharing

Touch screen

Track point

Transfer rate

Twisted pair (for network)

USB port (recognize, and how many devices can be connected)

Usenet newsgroups (know what it is)

WAN

Wand (input device)

Wand reader

Wireless network

Workstation

Zone recording

Common domain name extensions (.gov, .mil, .net, .au, .com) etc

email

HTML font formatting (italics, bold, underline)

html markup language

http protocol

Internet

Internet (why developed)

telnet

www