Microprocessors made possible the advent of the microcomputer. A microprocessor is a digital electronic component with miniaturized transistors on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC).
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a ring of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet.
The Zip drive is a medium-capacity removable disk storage system.
A modem (modulator and demodulator) is a device that modulates a carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
USB flash drives are also known as "pen drives", "chip sticks", "thumb drives".
SCSI stands for "Small Computer System Interface", and is a standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on both internal and external computer buses.
