Chapter 3 Computer Hardware and Peripherals: Your Digital Toolbox Chapter Outline Key Terms Study Questions 3.1 A of Digital Devices peripheral device What makes a device "peripheral"? 3.2 The Parts That Make Up What are the basic components of a Your Computer computer? What’s Contained on the motherboard What is the function of the motherboard? read-only memory Motherboard? What is on the motherboard? (ROM) BIOS expansion card PC Card Take the Next Step: Activity multicore processor How does a multicore processor system 3.2.1 parallelized work? Power Supply power supply What job does the power supply do? Ports port What do ports do? physical port What are the different types of ports that serial port might be found on a computer? universal serial bus (USB) port FireWire port Infrared Data Association (IrDA) port MIDI Storage drive How are drives identified on a computer? How are they identified on Macintosh computers? hard disk What are the basic components of a hard Hard Disks disk? CD How are data stored to and retrieved from Optical Drives DVD optical drives? Blu-ray disc optical drive optoelectronic sensor external hard How do external hard drives connect to External Hard Drives your computer? What are they typically used for? flash drive What are some other names for flash Flash Drives flash memory drives? How are flash drives used? Take the Next Step: Activity What devices can be built into your 3.2.3 computer to enable communications? 3.3 and Output Devices input device What are some examples of input and output device output devices?
Chapter 3 Computer Hardware and Peripherals: Your Digital Toolbox Chapter Outline Key Terms Study Questions 3.1 A of Digital Devices peripheral device What makes a device "peripheral"? 3.2 The Parts That Make Up Your Computer What are the basic components of a computer? What’s Contained on the Motherboard? motherboard read-only memory (ROM) BIOS expansion card PC Card What is the function of the motherboard? What is on the motherboard? Take the Next Step: Activity 3.2.1 multicore processor parallelized How does a multicore processor system work? Power Supply power supply What job does the power supply do? Ports port physical port serial port universal serial bus (USB) port FireWire port Infrared Data Association (IrDA) port MIDI What do ports do? What are the different types of ports that might be found on a computer? Storage drive How are drives identified on a computer? How are they identified on Macintosh computers? Hard Disks hard disk What are the basic components of a hard disk? Optical Drives CD DVD Blu-ray disc optical drive optoelectronic sensor How are data stored to and retrieved from optical drives? External Hard Drives external hard How do external hard drives connect to your computer? What are they typically used for? Flash Drives flash drive flash memory What are some other names for flash drives? How are flash drives used? Take the Next Step: Activity 3.2.3 What devices can be built into your computer to enable communications? 3.3 and Output Devices input device output device What are some examples of input and output devices?