A small electric element that is used to temporarily store electrical charge.

32-bit industry standard used for devices that fit into a laptop PC slot.

Referring to Category 5 Ethernet cabling, the CAT5 standard allows for data transfers up to 100 Mbps.

Category 7 quality cabling is needed for Gigabit (Gbps) Ethernet transmissions.

Recordable CD technology for data and music storage using a low-cost disc that can be written only once.

Compact Disc Read Only Memory - A compact disc format used to hold text, graphics and hi-fi stereo sound. The audio CD player cannot play CD-ROMs, but CD-ROM players can play audio discs.

CD ReWritable - A rewritable CD technology. CD-RW drives can also be used to write CD-R discs, and they can read CD-ROMs. A CD-RW disc can be rewritten over a thousand times and read on MultiRead CD-ROM drives or CD-RW compatible Audio CD players.

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor - a chip that packs many components into a very small semiconductor.

Communications Network Riser - Small slot next to the PCI slots which a modem or sound riser card plugs into.

Referring to coaxial cable, Coax is similar to TV cabling. Used for older 10Base2 Ethernet networks.