Compaq Evo Notebook N180 User Manual page 120

graphics Pictures or
illustrations, including drawings,
pie charts, bar graphs, street
maps, architectural and
engineering designs, fashion
designs, musical scores,
cartoons, animated images, and
photographs. A graphics card
enables the monitor to display
these items on the screen.
See also SVGA and XGA.
hard disk Internal storage
media for permanent storage of
system files, software, and data
files. The hard disk consists of
flat, round platters. Each side of
each platter has a head that floats
on a thin cushion of air over the
surface of the rapidly spinning
disk and picks up (reads)
magnetically stored data or
records (writes) data onto
the disk.
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hard drive
and writes to the hard disk. If
you have a large hard drive, it
may be divided into several
partitions. Each partition is
designated by a different icon
and a drive letter, beginning,
with the letter C. Partition C:
contains the files the computer
uses to start up. The other
partitions contain no preinstalled
files.
hardware The physical
components of a computer—the
parts you can physically touch.
See also software.
HTML The standard language
for documents designed for
viewing on the Internet with a
browser. Tags embedded in the
documents mark the location of
other electronic files—including
text, graphics, audio, and video
files. Click on the links
to jump from one document to
another. Documents formatted
for a browser can be identified
by the file extension .htm or
.html. See also hyperlink.
Glossary
The drive that reads
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