Toshiba T1100 PLUS User Manual page 182

L
LCD:
See liquid crystal display.
liquid crystal display:
shown. It consists of a thin nematic layer of liquid crystal pressed
between two glass plates.
M
menu:
A list of options which appears on the screen, along with an
invitation to make a selection.
main board:
See motherboard.
microprocessor:
A hardware component contained in a single inte­
grated circuit which carries out instructions.
mode:
A method of operation, for example, the binary mode or the
alphanumeric mode. Also, the value of an item occurring most fre­
quently in a series of statistical data.
modem:
A device that converts (MOdulates) digital data for transmis­
sion over telephone lines and then conver t s modulated data
(DEmodulates) to digital format when received.
monitor:
Synonymous with CRT.
motherboard:
A name sometimes used to refer to the main hardware
(printed circuit) board in the processing equipment. It contains inte­
grated circuits for performing various functions as well as additional
connectors for adding other PC boards, such as interface boards.
These latter provide the capabilities for hooking up peripheral equip­
ment, and for expanding existing capabilities.
o
(Optical Character Reader):
OCR wand
written or machine printed symbols into a computer.
operating system:
ating and using a computer for the creation of programs and data files
and controlling the transmission and receipt (input/ output) of data to
and from peripheral devices connected to the computer. The TllOO
uses the MS-DOS operating system.
operating system disk:
output:
The results of a computer operation. Commonly used to indi­
cate data on printed paper, on a terminal or stored on some magnetic
media.
The screen on which data from the TllOO is
The computer system software that facilitates oper­
The disk containing the operating system.
GLOSSARY
A device that reads hand
GLOSSARyn