Dell Latitude C640 User Manual page 161

NOTE: If an extended PC Card is installed, you may have trouble inserting a second PC Card. Always
install extended cards in the top PC Card connector.
NOTICE: Always remove an extended PC Card before packing the computer or traveling. If something
strikes the exposed end of the PC Card, the system board may be damaged.
F
F - Fahrenheit
A temperature measurement system where 32° is the freezing point and 212° is the boiling point of water.
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
A U.S. agency responsible for enforcing communications-related regulations rating how much radiation
computers and other electronic equipment can emit.
floppy drive - A disk drive that can read and write to floppy disks.
folder - A place to organize and group files on a disk or drive. Files in a folder can be viewed and ordered
in various ways, such as alphabetically, by date, and by size.
format - The process that prepares a drive or disk for file storage. When a drive or disk is formatted, the
existing information on it is lost.
ft - foot
A unit of measurement for length that equals 12 inches.
G
G - gravity
A measurement of weight and force.
GB - gigabyte
A unit of data that equals 1024 MB (1,073,741,824 bytes) and measures drive storage capacity.
graphics mode - A video mode that can be defined as x horizontal pixels by y vertical pixels by z colors.
Graphics modes can display an unlimited variety of shapes and fonts.