Epson Endeavor WG User Manual

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Diskette

A flat piece of flexible plastic coated with magnetic material

used to store the data written to it by the diskette drive. A

diskette can be transferred from one computer to another.

Display adapter curd

A circuit board that can be installed in one of the computer’s

option slots to control the way a monitor displays text and

graphics. A VGA display adapter is built into your computer’s

main system board. Also called video card.

DOS

Disk Operating System. The generic term for the operating

system software that controls a computer and directs its input

and output functions. See also MS-DOS and Operating system.

Double-density

A type of diskette format that allows you to store twice as

much data as the standard-density format. A 5.25-inch,

double-density diskette can store 360KB of data. A 3.5-inch,

double-density diskette can store 720KB of data.

Drive designator

The letter name of a disk drive, followed by a colon-for

example, C : .

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter. A type of display adapter card

that allows you to display high-resolution graphics on an EGA

monitor. It can display up to 43 lines of text with 80 characters

on each line, or it can display monochrome or 16-color graphics

at resolutions up to 640 x 350.

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