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 Expansion Slot Socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter card

Adapter Card and Expansion Card
Circuit board that enhances functions of a component of the system unit and provideos connections to peripherals

Peripheral
 Device that connect to the system unit
Controlled by processor in the computer
 Eg: Modems, disk drivers, printers , scanner, keyboar

 Sound Card
Enhance the sound generating capabilities
 By allowing sound to be input through a microphone and output through external speaker and    headphones

Video card
 Called a graphics card. Converts computer output into a video signal
 Travel through cable to monitor,display the image on the screen

 Removable Flash Memory
Hot plugging and insert and remove the removable flash memory while computer is running
Eg: Memory cards, USB flash drive, PC Cards, ExpressCard module


 Memory Card
Removable flash memory device.Insert and remove from a slot in a personal computer, game console, mobile device, card reader,smart phones, digital cameras ,portable media player

 USB flash drive
 Plug in a USB port on a computer or mobile device


 PC Card Slot/Expansion Card Slot
Hold a PC Card or an ExpressCard module

 PC Card
 Thin, credit card-sized removable flash memory device
Enable traditional notebook computers and Tablet PCs to access the Internet wirelessly

 ExpressCard module
Adds memory, communications, multimedia, and security capabilities to computer


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