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Photoelectric scanner that reads bar codes for processing.
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Bar-code reader
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Easy-to-learn procedural programming language widely used on microcomputers.
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BASIC (BeginnerÆs All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code):
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Processing performed all at once on data that has been collected over several days.
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Batch processing
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Numbering system in which all numbers consist of only two digits--0 and 1.
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Binary system
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A 0 or 1 in the binary system.
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Bit (binary digit
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Graphic file in which image is made up of thousands of dots (pixels).
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Bitmap file
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Bandwidth that includes microwave, satellite, coaxial cable, and fiber-optic channels. It is used for very high speed computers.
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Broadband
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Special Internet software that allows users to effortlessly jump from one computerÆs resources to another computerÆs resources.
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Browser
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Surfing or navigating the Web.
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Browsing
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A data roadway along which bits travel.
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Bus
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Electronic data roadway, connecting the parts of the CPU to each other and linking the CPU with other important hardware, along which bits travel. Also, the common connecting cable in a bus network.
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Bus line
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Network in which all communications travel along a common path. Each device in the network handles its own communications control. There is no host computer or file server.
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Bus network
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A special area you can click to make links and ônavigateö through a presentation.
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Button
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Unit consisting of eight bits. There are 256 possible bit combinations in a byte.
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Byte
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