Computer peripherals Computer peripherals A computer display, monitor or screen is a computer peripheral device capable of showing characters and/or still or moving images generated by a computer and processed by a graphics card. Monitors generally conform to one or more display standards. Sometimes the name "display" suits better than the word "monitor", as the latter term can also ambiguously refer to a "machine-level debugger" or to a " thread synchronization mechanism". Some people also refer to computer displays as "heads", especially when talking about multiple displays connected to a single physical computer. Once an essential component of a computer terminal, computer displays have long since become standardized peripherals in their own right. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer display"
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Soundscape S-2000 was Ensoniq's first direct foray into the PC sound card market. It was a full-length ISA digital audio and wavetable synthesis audio card, equipped with a 2MB Ensoniq-built ROM-based patch set. It had fairly clean audio output quality (superb for 1994). The digital sound section of the card was capable of supporting a wide array of hardware, and had its own high-quality native Soundscape mode. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000"
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Fax (short for facsimile - from Latin "fac simile", "make similar", i.e. "make a copy" - or telefacsimile) is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network. The words telecopy and telefax are also used as synonyms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fax"
The GameShark is a tool for modifying the play of video games, by unlocking various game modes and objects, using codes, usually for the purpose of cheating. ...more on Wikipedia about "GameShark"
A graphics card, video card, v card, video board, video display board, display adapter, video adapter, or graphics adapter ** is a computer component designed to convert the logical representation of visual information into a signal that can be used as input for a display medium. Displays are most often a monitor, but use of LCD TV, HDTVs, and projectors is growing increasingly common with the growth of the media center computer concept. The graphics card and display medium are able to communicate utilizing a variety of display standards. Graphics card are both integrated into motherboards, and sold as expansion cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graphics card"
Gravis Ultrasound or GUS is a sound card for the IBM PC compatible system platform. It was very popular in the demo scene in the 1990s, due to its superior sound quality compared to similarly-priced soundcards of its time. Gravis understood early on that to get the demo scene's support would be a sales booster, so they gave away 6000 cards for free to the most famous scene groups and persons. The scene then quickly changed from being mostly Sound Blaster supporting to almost exclusively support the GUS. Many demos and intros made in the 90s do not work with anything but. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gravis Ultrasound"
The HardSID is a family of sound cards, produced by a Hungarian company Hard Software and originally conceived by Teli Sándor. ...more on Wikipedia about "HardSID"
The Heliodisplay is an interactive 3D display. Though the image it projects appears much like a hologram, its inventors claim that it doesn't use holographic technology, though it does use lasers to project its image. It does not require any screen or substrate to project its image. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heliodisplay"
Hot swapping is the ability to remove and replace components of a machine, usually a computer, while it is operating. Once the appropriate software is installed on the computer, one can plug and unplug the device without rebooting. An example of this is the Universal Serial Bus (USB), that allows a user to add or remove peripheral devices such as a mouse, keyboard, or printer. It usually requires more sophisticated software and hardware than plug-and-play. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot swapping"
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A letter-quality printer was a form of computer impact printer that was able to print with the quality typically expected from a business typewriter such as an IBM Selectric. ...more on Wikipedia about "Letter-quality printer"
An MFP (Multi Function Printer/Product/Peripheral), multifunctional, all-in-one (AiO), or mopier, is an office machine that includes the following functionality in one physical body, so as to have a smaller footprint in a home or small-business setting (the SoHo market segment), or to provide better document management/distribution/production in a large-office setting: ...more on Wikipedia about "Multifunction printer"
A peripheral is a type of computer hardware that is added to a host computer in order to expand its abilities. More specifically the term is used to describe those devices that are optional in nature, as opposed to hardware that is either demanded, or always required in principle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peripheral"
A peripheral device is any device attached to a computer in order to expand its functionality. Some of the more common peripheral devices are printers, scanners, disk drives, tape drives, microphones, speakers, and cameras. A device can also refer to a non-physical item, such as a pseudo-tty, a RAM drive, or a network adapter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peripheral device"
Photocopying is a process which makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. It was introduced by Xerox in the 1960s, and over the following 20 years it gradually replaced copies made by carbon paper, mimeograph machines and other duplicating machines. The prevalence of its use is one of the factors that prevented the development of the paperless office heralded early in the digital revolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Photocopying"
(SnappyVideoSnapshot) The Snappy Video Snapshot is an Interface between a camcorder and personal_computer which enables digitizing of high quality still frames. Snappy connects to the parallel_port on a personal_computer and the composite_video output on a camcorder. ...more on Wikipedia about "SnappyVideoSnapshot"
The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was for many years the de facto standard for audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, before PC audio became commoditized, and backward-compatibility became less of a feature. The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Labs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound Blaster"
A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound card"
A stored energy printer is a type of computer printer that uses the energy stored in a spring or magnetic field to push a hammer through a ribbon to print a dot. As compared to dot matrix printers that print a single column of dots at a time, these printers generally print an entire line of dots at a time and so are sometimes called line matrix printers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stored energy printer"
An uninterruptible power supply, or UPS, is a device or system that maintains a continuous supply of electric power to certain essential equipment that must not be shut down unexpectedly. The equipment is inserted between a primary power source, such as a commercial utility, and the primary power input of equipment to be protected, for the purpose of eliminating the effects of a temporary power outage and transient anomalies. They are generally associated with telecommunications equipment, computer systems, and other facilities such as airport landing systems and air traffic control systems where even brief commercial power interruptions could cause injuries or fatalities, serious business disruption or data loss. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uninterruptible power supply"
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