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User’s Manual Glossary-13

L500/L505/L500D/L505D

SCSI: Small Computer System Interface is an industry standard interface

for connection of a variety of peripheral devices.

SD/SDHC memory card: Secure Digital cards are flash memory widely

used in a variety of digital devices such as digital cameras and

Personal Digital Assistants.

SECAM L: SECAM (Sequential Color Memory) is a broadcasting standard

used in France.

SIO: Serial Input/Output. The electronic methodology used in serial data

transmission.

soft key: Key combinations that emulate keys on the IBM keyboard,

change some configuration options, stop program execution, and

access the numeric keypad overlay.

software: The set of programs, procedures and related documentation

associated with a computer system. Specifically refers to computer

programs that direct and control the computer system’s activities.

See also hardware.

stop bit: One or more bits of a byte that follow the transmitted character or

group codes in asynchronous serial communications.

synchronous: Having a constant time interval between successive bits,

characters or events.

system disk: A diskette that contains the operating system files needed to

start the computer. Any diskette can be formatted as a system disk.

A system disk is also called a “bootable disk”, “boot disk” or a

“startup disk.” Compare non-system disk.

telephony: the transmission of speech or sounds between two distant

points with or without the use of wires, particularly a telephone.

terminal: A typewriter-like keyboard and CRT display screen connected to

the computer for data input/output.

TFT display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) made from an array of liquid

crystal cells using active-matrix technology with thin film transistor

(TFT) to drive each cell.

Touch Pad: A pointing device integrated into the TOSHIBA computer palm

rest.

USB: Universal Serial Bus. This serial interface lets you communicate with

several devices connected in a chain to a single port on the

computer.

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