- Graphics
Displays
- 8-32 bits of color (256-16.7 million colors)
- 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
- Uses RGB (Red, Green, Blue) to display color
- Usually based on CRTs but flat panel LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) are steadily improving in both price and performance.
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Mass Storage
- Magnetic disk (hard & removable floppy)
- Magneto-optical disk (removable)
- CD-ROM RAID (Redundant array of inexpensive disks)
- Removable (Syquest, ZipDrive, shuttle disk)
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Tape Drives - Needed to backup large capacity disk drives.
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Networks - A schematic of our network is given below.
