Across
- 2. Its required by most mice and keyboards.
- 5. Old printers and scanners are often connected to this.
- 7. It allows peripherals to communicate quickly with the processor.
- 9. It stores most of your computer's components and it sends data traffic to and from devices.
- 11. It acts as the brain which carries out your computer's instructions.
- 13. Before starting your main OS, it performs system checks, and allows communication between the processor and the PC's peripherals.
Down
- 1. You can use this to connect many types of peripherals and they are also hot-swappable like usb ports.
- 3. It's much slower than a usb port, but you can connect older keyboards, mice and modems to this.
- 4. It stores the graphics card, which gives the image to the monitor.
- 6. It directs power through multicolored wires to each device.
- 8. It provides better sound quality than a sound chip.
- 10. It keeps temporary information, such as data relating to open programs, which is stored by the CPU.
- 12. Many peripherals require this connection. Data from this port, and power from the computer can be drawn from some devices.