Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Content Covered in Support Material
  3. Types of Computer System Featured on the DVD
    1. Mainframe
    2. Personal computer
    3. Desktop
    4. Laptop/notebook
    5. Palmtop (or PDA) computer
    6. Hardware devices
  4. Types of Input Devices Featured on the DVD
    1. Trackpad
    2. Keyboard
    3. Mouse and trackball
    4. Graphics tablet
    5. Digital still camera
    6. Digital video camera
    7. Webcam
  5. Types of Output Devices Featured on the DVD
    1. Printer
    2. Laser printer
    3. Inkjet printer
    4. Comparing printers
    5. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
    6. TFT (Thin Film Transistor)
    7. Sound card (Credit)
    8. Graphics card (Credit)
  6. Types of Backing Storage Featured on the DVD
    1. Hard disk drive
    2. Magnetic tape drive
    3. CD-ROM
    4. DVD-ROM
    5. CD-Recordable (CD-R)
    6. CD-Rewriteable) CD-RW
    7. DVD-Recordable (DVD-R/DVD+R)
    8. DVD-Rewriteable (DVD-RW/DVD+RW)
    9. DVD capacity
    10. USB backing storage devices
    11. Comparison of backing storage
    12. Sequential access to data (Credit)
    13. Random or direct access (Credit)
  7. Questions and Tasks
  8. Answers to Questions and Tasks