Lesson 1 review
Tablet PC
A personal computer you can use to take notes with a stylus or digital pen on a touch screen.
1 of 2 primary sections of the CPU
Arithmetic/Logic unit
Tracks
When data is stored on a disk, it is stored in circles called
Rom chips
are found throughout a computer system
Computer System
consists of hardware, software, data and users.
2 of 2 primary sections of the CPU
control unit
The control unit
coordinates all of the processor's activities.
A computer system includes
hardware, software,data
The instruction cycle and the execution cycle create a(n)
machine cycle
Random access memory (RAM) is
nonvolatile
Optical storage devices use laser beams to
read and write data.
You can think of RAM as
short-term memory
A computer manufacturer uses a(n) ROM chip to store specific instructions that are needed for computer operations.
store specific instructions that are needed for computer operations.
The faster the machine cycle
the faster your computer processes data
A supercomputer
the fastest type of computer.
The main advantage of solid-state storage media
they process data electronically and contain no mechanical parts
