Period Six

1. Why are there fewer expansion cards found on modern computers?

2. What are I.C. chips? What do the letter IC stand for? Be sure that you describe in detail.

3. What does the special IC called the CPU do?

4. What were the first IBM-compatible home computers?

5. What are the two things that chips can remember?

6. Eight bits is called a what?

7. What is binary?

8. What number does the binary 11110010 represent?

9. What does ASCII stand for?

10. What is the importance of the BIOS to the CPU?

11. Why does each drive light momentarily flash on?

12. What is a bootable disk? What are the three files that a bootable disk must contain?

13. Why would you not be able to see some files when you type “dir”?

14. What is the short-term memory of the computer?

15. What is the order of the three files that comprise a bootable disk that the computer examines?

16. What part of the computer is always awake?

17. What is the purpose of the CMOS?

18. Why should you be careful about altering the CMOS settings?

19. How is the timing crystal recharged?

20. Where is the information from a program loaded?

21. At how many revolutions does a hard disk spin?

22. How fast do floppies run?

23. Explain how a floppy disk works? Go into details.

24. Explain the workings of CD-ROMs. Note the difference between floppies.

25. Are there any issues that you have at this time that you would like me to note? Are you feeling more comfortable with the class than you were at the beginning?

26. Are you less intimated by the machines?