Computer Tech Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A general-purpose computer contained in a touchscreen panel
  2. 4. a computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
  3. 7. Part of the computer that processes information, performs arithmetic calculations, and makes basic decisions based on information values.
  4. 10. personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location desk/table
  5. 11. Information in a form that can be read, used, and manipulated by a computer.
  6. 12. Information given out by the computer
  7. 14. Anything that can be communicated. Some information has value; some has none.
  8. 16. Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily.
  9. 17. Expensive, room-sized computer, used mostly for large computing jobs.
Down
  1. 1. A choice of two values, such as yes and no or zero and one.
  2. 2. Hundred of transistors packed into an integrated circuit on a piece of silicon.
  3. 4. a computer with a high-level computational capacity compared to a general-purpose computer
  4. 5. Information taken in by the computer
  5. 6. The box that contains a computer’s main circuitry and storage devices.
  6. 8. a desktop computer terminal, typically networked and more powerful than a personal computer
  7. 9. A portable, compact personal computer that can run on a battery
  8. 13. Loading the non-ROM part of the operating system into memory
  9. 15. Memory that includes permanent information only. The computer can only read information from it; it can never write any new information on it.
  10. 17. A unit of measurement for a computer’s clock speed; millions of clock cycles per second.