Hardware Technology

Works with continuous data. Example: A dimmer switch connected to a light, it has more than an on or off state.

Analog device

Holds the instructions on how your computer should start itself. Is powered by a watch battery and is known as the Basic Input Output System.

BIOS

Binary digits - a 1 or a 0

Bit

The amount of storage required to hold one character. A set of 8 bits that means something to the computer, like a letter, number, or punctuation mark.

Byte

A programmable usually electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data.

Computer

Whatever is typed, submitted, or transmitted to a computer system.

Computer input

A device that works with distinct and separate data, such as digits 1 and 0. Example: digital devices only have two states, on or off, like a light switch.

Digital Device

Brand name for a digital interface used to transmit audio and video data in a single cable

HDMI cable

The computer part is the main storage area for a personal computer.

Hard Drive

A super-thin slice of semiconducting material packed with microscopic circuit elements, such as wires, transistors, capacitors, logic gates, and resistors.

Integrated Circuit

The main circuit board that houses all essential chips and provides connecting circuitry between them.

Motherboard

A system of computers interconnected by telephone wires or other means in order to share information

Network

The set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provide common services for computer programs, typically loaded by the BIOS on booting.

Operating System

The results produced by the computer can be display, transmitted, or printed on one of these.

Output Device

Manipulation of data by computers in a variety of ways like calculating, solving, decision making etc.

Processing

Its name is Random Access Memory, also known as a temporary holding area for data.

RAM

A computer, a device or a program that is dedicated to managing network resources (such as access to files or shared peripherals or the routing of e-mail) to other computers in the network.

Server

The programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them, such as Word or PowerPoint.

Software

Central processing unit(CPU)

Sometimes described as the computers brain, this is where most processing takes place.

An expansion card that allows the computer to send graphical information to a video display device such as a monitor, TV, or projector

Video card