Coaxial (coax) cable, 515
Codecs, 561
Cold boot, 112
Color conversion, inkjet printing, 419
Color depth, 262-264, 375-377
Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) 257, 379
Color inkjet printers, 419-422
Color laser printers, 430-432
Color Looku pTable (CLUT), 387, 419
Color numbers, 264
Color palettes, 375
Colors used in raster graphics, 387
COM ports, 301-302
Common-plane LCD, 392
Communications, 485-489, 509-537
Computer Properties window, 247, 284-285,
300, 303, 305
Computers, evolution of, 4-13
Conductor (electrical), 36, 46, 316
Connectors, 475-507
floppy disk drive, 199
hard disk drive, 182-183
keyboard, 463-464
monitor to video card, 259
on the motherboard, 476-480
mouse, 467-468
Constant angular velocity (CAV), 210
Constant linear velocity (CLV), 211
Context menu key, 451, 453
Continuity (electrical), 313
Continuous-tone laser printing, 432
Control bus, 51
Controller chips, 88-92
Conventional memory, 147, 306
Cordless device connections, 464
Cordless mice, 468
CPU bus system, 50
CPU clock, 134
CPU sockets and slots, 54-56
CPU wait states, 134-136
CPUs (central processor units), 40, 48-68, 82-83,
282, 626-627
CRTs (cathode ray tubes), 368, 370-371, 380-389.
See alsoMonitors and displays
as analog devices, 378, 389
disposal of, 596
elements of, 381
emission standards for, 400
focus controls, 378
vs. LCD monitors, 370, 389
magnetized, 396-397
painting the screen, 380-382
viewing angles, 394-395
Cylinders (disk), 187-188
Cyrix microprocessors, 61, 64, 66
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Daisy wheel printers, 403
Data addressing, 186
Data burst, 162
Data buses, 50, 140-141
Data capacity units, 189
Data connector, 182
Data density standards, 199-200
Data mirroring, 195
Data organization, disk, 187-189
Data striping, 195
Data transmission, 482-483
Data-circuit termination equipment, 488
DB-15 connector, 259
DB-15 VGA video port, 502
DB-25 connectors, 404, 491
DB-25 and DB-9 connector pinouts, 485
DC (direct current), 33, 315
DC power protection devices, 615
DC power supply, laser printer, 429
DCE, 488-489
DDR (Double Data Rate DRAM), 105
DEBUG command, 276-277
Decimal numbers, 28-29, 31, 43-44
Dedicated bus line, 282
Dedicated cables, 5
Degaussing, 396-397
Depth cueing, 271
Deskto pcom puters, 16, 368
Deskto pmenu (Windows), 375
Device Manager (Windows), 93-94, 290-294, 307
Device Properties window (Windows), 247, 293,
296, 301
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol), 528
Dial-u pconnections, 531
Dial-U pNetworking (DUN), 531
Diffuse dithering, 421
Digital vs. analog CRTs, 389
Digital audio extraction (DAE), 548
Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), 540
Digital cameras, cleaning, 579
Digital circuit, 35, 316
Digital data/signals, 26, 256, 270
Digital devices, 26
Digital logic, 26-30, 40-45
Digital multimeter (DMM), 314-315
Digital signal, 26-27
Digital signal processor (DSP), 470
Digital subscriber lines (DSL) service, 532-533
Digital voltage meter (DVM), 314
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC), 270, 378
Digitizers (digitizer tablets), 566, 579
DIMM (dual inline memory module), 81, 83,
139-140, 142-143, 154-155, 233
DIN connectors, 463, 499Index^641