| Name |
Description |
| IBM |
A computer company that designed and built the first PCs, and still a giant of the industry. Standard PCs are still sometimes referred to as IBM compatible, although IBM does not control the PC standard anymore. |
| IDE |
(Intelligent Drive Electronics ) A type of PC hard disk. |
| IDE |
Intelligent Drive Electronics is used to connect Hard Drives or CDs to a motherboard. |
| Inkjet |
Technology for printers that works by squirting tiny jets of ink onto paper with very very high percision. |
| Intranet |
A private network inside a company that uses the same kinds of software as public Internet, but that is only for inside use. |
| IP Number |
Sort of like an address for a computer. It is used so that servers on the internet know where to sent the data that is being requested by the computer. |
| iRobot-LE |
A home-monitoring, communication robot developed by iRobot. You can control the iRobot unit using a PC running Windows 95/98 or Windows NT, with a broadband Internet connection. It communicates directly with the Internet using a personal Web server and an IP (Internet Protocol) address. The iRobot is equipped with a Pentium processor and the Linux operating system, although you don’t need Linux on your home PC to run the robot. |
| ISA |
(Industry Standard Architecture; pr."icer") Usually used to describe the format of a once-common type of expansion card, now almost obsolete but there are still some cards in this format around. |
| ISA |
The format of a type of expansion card that used to be common. PCI has replaced ISA over the last few years. |
| ISDN |
Basically a way to move more data over existing regular phone lines. It is more expensive than normal phone internet though... |
| IT |
Information Technology, what computers are all about. |
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