ISA—Stands for the
Industrial Standard Architecture bus.
ISA is an older type of local bus that is being completely
replaced by PCI. Its bus is
only 16 bits.
Keyboard—This
is one of the peripheral devices that inputs instructions to the
computer. The current
Windows based keyboard has 104 keys.
Modem—Used
to communicate from one computer to another
Monitor—A
displaying screen to view computer data.
Motherboard—The
Motherboard is the main circuitry of a computer.
It is the base where every component's interact.
The bus on a motherboard provides the route for components to
communicate with the CPU and memory.
On the surface of the board are chips for controlling peripheral
devices and booting up the computer, and socket and slots for connecting
CPU, RAM, and expansion cards. This is the second most important part in
a computer.
Mouse—A
mouse is a device used for graphical user interface (GUI), where the
user can actually see what s/he is executing.
Parallel port—A port
that connects other peripheral device which can either transfer single
or multiple bits of data at a time
PCI—Peripheral
Component Interconnect. PCI
is a local bus with a channel of 32 – 64 bits wide and the clock speed
of 33 or 66 MHz.
Power supply—A
device that transfers power to other power cables within the computer.
Printer—An output
device that connects to the computer in order to print texts, graphics,
and documents on a paper.
Processor—The
unit of the computer that processes information and output results and
instructions to other hardware.
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