EP CH1 STACK 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| expansion cards | A circuit board inserted into a slot on the motherboard to enhance the capability of the computer.
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| expansion slots | A narrow slot on the motherboard where an expansion card can be inserted. Expansion slots connect to a bus on the motherboard.
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| firmware | Software that is permanently stored in a chip. The BIOS on a motherboard is an example of firmware.
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| flash ROM | ROM that can be reprogrammed or changed without replacing chips.
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| floppy disk drive (FDD) | A drive that can hold either a 5 inch or 3 inch floppy disk. Also called floppy drive.
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| floppy drive | See floppy disk drive (FDD).
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| front side bus (FSB) | See system bus.
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| gigahertz (GHz) | One thousand MHz, or one billion cycles per second.
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| graphics card | See video card.
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| hard copy | Output from a printer to paper.
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| hard disk drive (HDD) | See hard drive.The main secondary storage device of a PC. Two technologies are currently used by hard drives: magnetic and solid state. Also called a hard disk drive (HDD).
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| hard drive | The main secondary storage device of a PC. Two technologies are currently used by hard drives: magnetic and solid state. Also called a hard disk drive (HDD).
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| hardware | The physical components that constitute the computer system, such as the monitor, the keyboard, the motherboard, and the printer.
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| hertz (Hz) | Unit of measurement for frequency, calculated in terms of vibrations, or cycles per second. For example, for 16–bit stereo sound, a frequency of 44,000Hz is used. See also megahertz.
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| host bus | See memory bus or system bus.
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| keyboard | A common input device through which data and instructions may be typed into computer memory.
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