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Home Dictionary Name: microcomputermicrocomputer
A small computer based on a microprocessor in practise at any given time in the technology of computer development a microcomputer will be one that is less powerful than a minicomputer...
diskette
a data storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit It is used in a specially designed disk drive in which the disk is rotated at high speed and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read write head of the drive Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer...
minicomputer
a mid sized digital computer at any given point in the development of computer technology a minicomputer will be faster and have greater capacity than a microcomputer but will be slower and have less capacity than a mainframe computer...
motherboard
The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device especially computers The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus and usually also the cpu On motherboards designed with an expansion bus often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the motherboard...
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