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3. A device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper
6. collection of facts or data
7. Biometric scanner system that recognize signatures, voices, or keystroke dynamics
9. an acronym for “modulator-demodulator”
11. Biometric scanner system that recognize fingerprints, irises, retinas, faces even ears.
12. _____ system is a set of software programs that helps a computer, file server, or network run itself and also the application programs designed for it
13. acronym of a word that closely resembles a CD-ROM in that too is a 5-inch plastic disk that uses a laser to encode microscopic pits in its substrate surface
14. abbreviation for the software that enables business and government agencies to transmit and manipulate financial data on organizational-wide basis and usually used by large organizations.
16. printers that employ tiny wires in a print head to strike an inked ribbon and create tiny dots on a print page
18. intangible part of computer. It is a computer instructions or data

1. create printed output in much the same way as duplicating machines.
2. Ability to transmit voice grade signals or digital data over wireless communication channels
3. ____ Language of detailed instruction that computers can understand and execute
4. documents are the starting point for collecting accounting data in most AISs (time cards, packaging slips, survey forms)
5. a computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
8. printers that create characters by distributing tiny dots of ink onto printer pages
9. Combines video, text, graphics, animation, and sound to produce multidimensional output
10. physical part of computer system
15. a primary memory that contains operating system instructions, application program instructions and user data.
17. Provide several users access to common hardware, software, and computer files