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The Monitor The CD Drive The Floppy Drive The Zip Drive The Printer The Mouse The Scanner |
| The tower or main part of the computer. It contains the drives, the cpu or the "thinking" part of the computer. | The printer. The printer makes a paper copy of what is on your computer. Some printers are in black and white and others are in color. | The scanner. We use the scanner to take pictures to put them into the computer. You can use images in a story, and in email. |
| The CD drive. CD's contain many programs, such as Inform and Encarta. You cannot save to the CD drive. | The monitor. It is like a television, but it doesn't usually show TV signals. It shows us what is in the computer and on the web. | The Zip drive. Use the Zip drive to save very large files. |
| The floppy disk drive. Use it to save smaller files such as word processing files. You will have a floppy to keep in your folder for the whole quarter. Be very careful in how you use a floppy. | The mouse. The computer mouse is used to move the cursor around on the monitor and helps you to move around programs. This mouse has three buttons and a wheel to make actions faster. | The keyboard. This is the part like a typewriter. It lets you put (or input) words, and numbers into the computer. |
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