Macintoshes have a restart button on the keyboard. Browser - An Internet search tool, such as Mosaic or Lynx. CD-ROM disks can store up to 650 of data, all of which can be made available interactively on the computer's display. CD-ROM currently is used to produce encyclopedias, dictionaries, and software libraries available to personal computer users. New compression techniques enable you to pack up to 250,000 text pages on one CD-ROM disk.
Computers represent and manipulate text, graphics, symbols and music, as well as numbers.
Your hot new modem seems plenty fast relative to that pitiful old 2400-bps model you used to use, but wait until it starts to choke on the Internet's massive quantities of data. The specific compression method is named after the person who developed it . Data - Factual information you can use to generate calculations or to make decisions. If are skipping in this glossary from the terms in one definition to their definitions in another, you are experiencing a rudimentary form of hypertext. A device which takes the image from the computer and displays it on a screen or wall.