I-Bus 0818D, User Manual

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Appendix 2 – Glossary of Terms
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portion that radiates into free space, one way to suppress it is by
enclosing circuitry in a metal case.
EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory): A
programmable device which stores information regardless of power.
expansion card: A printed circuit board that plugs into an expansion
slot.
F
floppy drive: A device for reading information from or writing
information to external, portable computer disks called floppy disks.
front control panel: The small panel on the front of the computer
that usually contains one or more of the following: power switch,
reset switch, Power ON LED, disk access LED, keyboard connector,
status display, etc.
H
hard drive: A non-volatile data storage device. Hard drives
magnetically store computer data on spinning internal disks.
I
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics): A standard protocol for
signaling and communicating with a hard drive, CD-ROM drive, or
other peripheral device.
I/O card: A printed circuit board that plugs into an I/O slot.
I/O slot: A slot for plugging in additional I/O cards to expand the
capability of a computer.
ISA: The original IBM/PC expansion bus standard released into the
public domain by IBM.
K
keyboard connector: The connector through which keyboard
signals are input to a computer.
kilobyte (KB): 1,024 bytes.