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Tracks

Addressable, concentric circles on a disk, resembling the
grooves on a record, which help to divide the disk into separate

accessible areas. There are 80 tracks on each side of a double-
sided 1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 720KB diskette and 40 tracks on each

side of a double-sided 360KB diskette. The number of tracks on

a hard disk depends on its capacity.

VGA

Video Graphics Array. A type of high-resolution color display

adapter. The VGA adapter built into the system board of your
computer can display 16-color graphics at a resolution of up to
800 x 600 on a multi-frequency monitor or up to 640

x

480 on

a standard VGA monitor.

Video card

A display adapter card that can be installed in one of the

computer’s option slots to provide a monitor interface. Your
computer comes with a built-in

VGA

adapter, so you do not

need to install a video card in your system if you are going to use

this interface.

Write

To store data on a disk.

Write-protect

To protect the data on a diskette from being changed by placing

a write-protect tab over the notch on the side of a 5

diskette or by setting the write-protect switch on a 3
diskette. When a diskette is write-protected, you cannot erase,

change, or record over its contents.

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