23 vocabulary words

1. • American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII): a standard code and it has 128 7-bit combination
2. • Bit: a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like.
3. • Byte: bits used to represent a particular letter, number, or special character.
4. • CD-ROM: a disk on which a large amount of digitized data can be stored.
5. • Central processing unit (CPU): component of a computer system
6. • Controller: employee, an officer, a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
7. • DVD: disk that can store a very large amount of data, music, or images.
8. • Execution cycle (E-cycle): Hard disk drive: A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
9. • Impact printers:
10. • Input devices: to enter information into the computer for example a keyboard.
11. • Instruction cycle (I-cycle): Keyboard:
12. • Main memory: Memory: storage device used by a computer to hold the currently executing program and working data
13. • Motherboard: board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry
14. • Mouse: Network drive: another device that helps input and output data
15. • Nonimpact printers: back formation from impacted
16. • Optical storage devices:
17. • Output devices: information in a form suitable for transmission from internal to external units of a computer
18. • Plotter: an output device that produces a graphical representation
19. • Pointer:an identifier giving the location in storage of something of interest, as a data item, table, or subroutine.
20. • Random access memory (RAM):computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs.
21. • Read-only memory (ROM): computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures.
22. • Scanner: digital scanner , image scanner , electronic scanner.
23. • System clock: a time of day clock in a computer system