Toshiba Portege R200 User Guide - Page 289
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289 Glossary disable - To turn a computer option off. See also enable. disc - A round, flat piece of metal, designed to be read from and written to by optical (laser) technology, and used in the production of optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs. Compare disk. disk - A round, flat piece of material that can be magnetically influenced to hold information in digital form, and used in the production of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. Compare disc. See also diskette, hard disk. disk drive - The device that reads and writes information and programs on a diskette or hard disk. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or more read/write heads. diskette - A thin, flexible disk in a protective jacket that stores magnetically encoded data. Diskettes can be removed from the computer and come in two sizes: 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch. Your computer uses 3.5-inch diskettes. See also double-density diskette, high-density diskette. document - Any file created with an application and, if saved to disk, given a name by which it can be retrieved. See also file. double-click - To press a TouchPad control button or mouse button rapidly twice. In the Windows® operating system, this refers to the left TouchPad control button or mouse button, unless otherwise stated. double-density diskette - A 3.5-inch diskette that can hold up to 720 KB of information (half the capacity of a high-density diskette). See also diskette, high-density diskette. download - (1) In communications, to receive a file from another computer through a modem or network. (2) To send font data from the computer to a printer. See also upload. drag - To hold down a TouchPad control button or mouse button while moving the cursor to drag a selected object. In the Windows® operating system, this refers to the left TouchPad control button or mouse button, unless otherwise stated. driver - See device driver.