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