Across
- 4. routine that is burned into a flash memory chip located on the motherboard
- 5. an expansion card that connects a computer to a network so that it can communicate with other computers on that network
- 8. electromechanical output devices that are used to put information from the computer onto paper
- 10. connector that was the de facto video standard for computers for years and is still in use today
- 11. has no moving parts but uses the same solid-state memory technology found in the other forms of flash memory
- 12. data storage that uses on/off states on a chip to record patterns of binary data
- 13. electrical cycles per second
- 15. the measurement between triads on the display
Down
- 1. the second most popular way to cool processors, but it’s not often found in the PC market
- 2. compact and cheap storage device that can store a lot and are easy to use
- 3. global de facto wireless networking standard
- 6. The role of the ___ is to control and direct all the activities of the computer
- 7. The name given to any software that is encoded in hardware, usually a read-only memory (ROM) chip, and can be run without extra instructions from the operating system
- 9. Long-term storage device that plugs into the motherboard
- 14. term to describe how many software picture elements (pixels) are used to draw the screen