Computer Hardware

3. base 2 number
6. a group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.
7. base 16 number
8. an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form.
10. is a hardware component that supplies power to an electrical device
11. The brains of a video card are a very fast processor optimized for crunching lots of numbers in parallel.
13. a small, movable device that lets you control a range of things on a computer.
15. a high-capacity, self-contained storage device containing a read-write mechanism plus one or more hard disks, inside a sealed unit.
17. a storage device containing nonvolatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed.

1. A special type of router that stringently restricts the type of data allowed to move between an internal network and the outside world.
2. a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other device, with connectors into which other circuit boards can be slotted.
4. the smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store.
5. an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
9. The brains of your computer, a tiny chip packed full of transistors. This used to get faster (or at least smaller) every year.
12. is the hardware in a computing device where the operating system (OS), application programs and data in current use are kept so they can be quickly reached by the device's processor.
14. The dominant form of (wired) network connection these days.
16. base 10 number