Английский для пользователей компьютеров. Ч.1. Белобородова М.Л - 16 стр.

optical mark reader (OMR), point-of-sale (POS) terminal, voice input device,
voice recognition system

2. Match the following words with their synonyms marked in the text with bold
type:
kept, specialized, often, look like, changing, usual (2), to input, instruction, basic.

3. Match each of the following terms to the phrase that is the most closely related:
1. bar code reader, 2. cursor, 3. keyboard, 4. input controls, 5. dumb terminal,
6. executive workstation, 7. digitizer, 8. fax machine, 9. dedicated data entry
system, 10. intelligent terminal, 11. card reader, 12. magnetic-ink character,
13. touch screen, 14. mouse, 15. portable terminal
a. Type of scanner that "reads" text and graphics and transmits them over tele-
phone lines.
b. A user can carry this to hook up to a central computer from a remote location
c. Terminal that can input and receive data, as well as allow users to edit and
process data
d. Input component entirely dependent for all of its capabilities on the computer
system to which it is connected
e. Group of terminals connected to a main computer that do nothing but input and
store data, using tape or disk
f. Hardware device that reads the holes in punched cards'and transfers the
appropriate signals as input to the computer
g. Allows the user to touch hardware to instruct the computer to perform special-
ized tasks
h. Hand-held input device that is rolled across the desktop to move the cursor on
the screen
i. Specialized input device often used for mapmaking
j. Input devices used to read the data stored in the form of magnetic bars into a
computer
k. Sophisticated electromechanical component designed to create special stan-
dardized electronic codes when a key is pressed
I. This appears on the video display to mark where the next character will be
positioned after it is typed in
m. Safeguards used to ensure that data has been accurately input to the computer
system
n. Technology used by banks to keep track of data stored on the large volumes of
checks that are input daily