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1.1.1 Hardware
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- 1What is computer hardware?Computer Hardware is the physical part of a computer which includes digital circuitry. The processing hardware is necessary to gain a useable output from the system.
- 2What is the main part of the system?The main part of the system is the microprocessor, which is a single chip responsible for all the processing.
- 3What two components are known as peripherals?The input, auxiliary storage (sometimes known as a backing store) and output devices are known as peripherals, as they are not actually mounted on the system motherboard.
- 4What is the backing store?The backing store is normally a hard disk, which retains the data written on to it after the computer system has been switched off, it could also include other storage devices such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, flash memory and removable disks.
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- Year 11 IT Flashcards on 1.1.1 Hardware, created by Amrit Dhinsa on 23/02/2018.
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