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The document discusses the basic hardware components of a PC including the CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speaker. It defines primary memory as the section of memory the CPU can directly access, and secondary memory as memory that cannot be immediately accessed by the computer, such as a hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, DVD, or USB flash drive. It also defines several types of memory technologies including PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM.

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Hardware Basics Worksheets

The document discusses the basic hardware components of a PC including the CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speaker. It defines primary memory as the section of memory the CPU can directly access, and secondary memory as memory that cannot be immediately accessed by the computer, such as a hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, DVD, or USB flash drive. It also defines several types of memory technologies including PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM.

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HARDWARE BASICS - PC & MEMORY

YEAR 7 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

What component is this?


C.P.U
What component is this?
Monitor What does it do?
Provides the instructions and processing
What does it do? power the computer needs to do its work.
Displays information in pictorial or textual
forms

What component is this?


The Keyboard
What does it do?
Enters characters and functions into the
computer system by pressing
keys/buttons

What component is this?


Speaker
What does it do? What component is this?
To generate sound from your Mouse
computer What does it do?
It is used for to point at objects you see
on the screen and to tap things
What is MEMORY?
A PC component that stores
data whilst the computer is
running
Define SECONDARY memory:
Define PRIMARY memory:
Memory that cannot be
A section of memory that the
immediately accessed by the
CPU can access directly.
computer

What’s HDD?
Hard disk drive. Non-volatile
What’s PROM? Data storage device.
Programmable Read only What’s FDD?
memory Floppy Disk Drive. A hardware
What’s EPROM device that reads dada
Erasable Programmable read storage information
only memory What’s DVD?
What’s EEPROM? Digital Versatile Disc. A big
Electrically Erasable fast CD that can hole cinema
Programmable Read only like videos.
What’s Pen drive?
A USB flash drive that holds
flash storage that is easy to
get to.

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