The property of nickel-cadmium (NiCad) batteries that causes them to lose their capacity for full recharging if they are discharged...

(n) Indicates that a product can work with or is equivalent to another, better-known product. The term is often used...

A terminal (monitor and keyboard) that contains processing power. Intelligent terminals include memory and a processor to perform special display...

Parity checking uses parity bits to check that data has been transmitted accurately. The parity bit is added to every...

The quality of being either odd or even. The fact that all numbers have a parity is commonly used in...

A simple error-detection scheme in which each transmitted message is accompanied by a numerical value based on the number of...

Not working. A computer system is said to be down when it is not available to users. This can occur...

A special, non-printing character that begins, modifies, or ends a function, event, operation or control operation. The ASCII character set...

(v.) To make a computer system or network recognize you so that you can begin a computer session. Most personal...

The mode of parity checking in which each 9-bit combination of a data byte plus a parity bit contains an...