Introduction to Computer Hardware

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Summary of Nonvolatile Memory

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  1. Give the name of the item in the picture. Also, give other possible names for your item, including the functional name that starts with an "S".


  2. Inside a computer, to which device(s) is your item connected?

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  3. What is your item’s basic function?

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  4. How does it perform that function?

     

     

      1. Are there other elements involved?  If so, what are their names, connections and functions?

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  5. What is meant by nonvolatile?


  6. Is a thumb drive nonvolatile?

 

Complete the below section during your pre-brainstorming activity (step 5 on the process page)

 

As a group, you are going to choose/create a system that has some of the same general functions as a computer system and your element.   Take the function you wrote as an answer to question 3, and think of something unrelated to computers that performs the same function.  Write it here:

What system is it a part of?