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- table
- a set of rows and columns
- telecommunications
- any long-distance communications,
especially television
- teleprocessing
- accessing computer files located
elsewhere
- terminal
- a keyboard and computer screen. Also
called display terminal or video display terminal (VDT)
- terminal emulation
- mimicking a different kind of computer
terminal
- text interface
- user interface that uses only text
commands, no graphics.
- thermal printer
- printer that uses heat on chemically
treated paper to form characters, like some fax machines.
- thesaurus
- contains synonyms for selected word
- throughput
- how much data is moved in a certain
amount of time. Usually measured in kilobytes per second (Kbps) or
megabytes per second (Mbsp)
- time slice
- minimum amount of time for a task in the
CPU. Measured in milliseconds (ms)
- time-sharing
- multiple users share use of the host
computer processor
- token ring configuration
- network configuration where devices are
connected in a ring and a token is passed around the ring to
handle the turns of access to the communications line
- touchscreen
- monitor screen that reacts to being
touched by finger.
- tower
- Vertical case for a personal computer
- track
- the area of intersection of a track and a
sector on a storage disk
- track sector
- the area of intersection of a track and a
sector on a storage disk
- trackball
- an input device similar to a mouse except
the ball is on top where it can be moved with only one finger or
the thumb.
- tractor feed
- uses sprockets to pull continuous-feed
paper through a printer
- transcription error
- typing the wrong character like typing
7754 instead of 7154.
- transmission media
- the physical materials that are used to
transmit data between computers
- transmission rate
- rate data is transferred.
digital: Measured in bits per second (bps)
analog: Measured in baud where one baud is
one change in the signal per second.
- transmission protocol
- rules for what information is exchanged
and in what order
- transposition error
- interchanging two characters like typing
7754 instead of 7745.
- Trojan
- (short for Trojan horse) A program that does not appear to be
destructive but which, in fact, allows others to access your data,
to record your logins and passwords, or to destroy or alter your
data.
- turbo button
- obsolete button which ran CPU at a higher
clock rate
- tutorial
- a set of lessons that walks you through
the use of hardware or software
- twisted wire
- phone line, consisting of 4 twisted pairs
of wires bound together
- typeface
- a set of characters of similar design
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