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What is the hardware?
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The physical equipment of a computer, such as the screen/monitor, the keyboard, the CPU, and the storage device. The parts of a computer system you can touch.
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What is a keyboard?
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An input device resembling a typewriter and consisting of a standardized layout of buttons or keys with symbols, such as letters or numbers, that can be entered into a computer by pressing on the keys.
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What is piracy?
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Unauthorized copying of software for personal use or distribution. Pirating soft-ware is breaking the law and could land the offender in jail.
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What is a disk drive?
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The device that reads from and writes to a floppy disk or hard disk.
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What is a diskette?
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The most common storage device used with micro-computer.
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What is the hardware?
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The physical equipment of a computer, such as the screen/monitor, the keyboard, the CPU, and the storage device.
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What is a monitor?
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A display screen designed as an output device for a computer and usually composed of a Cathode Ray Tube.
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What is the computer?
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An electronic machine that can perform calculations and can process a large amount of information accurately and much more rapidly than the human brain.
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What is cropping?
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Cutting off part of an image, such as unneeded sections of a graphic area of space around borders.
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What is Public Domain?
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Software written as a good deed by some kind-hearted programmer, and then donated to the public. Anyone can use and copy public domain software free of charge.
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What is a clipboard?
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A memory resource that stores a copy of the last information that was "copied" or "cut"; the information on the clipboard can be "pasted" into another document.
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What is Plagiarism?
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Handing in someone else's work as their own.
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What is the Central Processing Unit? (CPU)
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The main component, or "brain," of a computer.
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What is clipart?
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A series of picture files that are stored on a disk that can be "clipped" and pasted into a document.
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What is a floppy disk?
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A flexible disk, made of thin plastic and magnetically coated. It is protected by a jacket with a metal slide moved to read or write information.
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What is Freeware?
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Software written by some generous-hearted programmer and then donated to the public, of anyone is free to copy it and gice it to their friends.
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What is a Printer?
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A mechanical output device that can print text, and sometimes graphics, on paper.
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What are output devices?
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Printers, monitors, storage devices like disk drives, and the computer itself.
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What us animation?
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Any method that can make an image appear to change over time.
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