Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- User’s Manual
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Features, Utilities and Options
- Chapter 2 - The Grand Tour
- Chapter 3 - Getting Started
- Chapter 4 - Operating Basics
- Using the TouchPad/Dual Mode Pad
- Dual Mode Pad Button function (Dual Mode Pad is provided with some models)
- Using the Web Camera (depending on the model purchased)
- Using the internal modem
- LAN
- Wireless LAN
- Using optical disc drives
- Writing CDs/DVDs on a DVD Super Multi drive or HD DVD-ROM drive supporting double layer disc recording
- Writing CDs/DVDs/HD DVDs on a HD DVD-R drive
- Using Ulead DVD MovieFactory® for TOSHIBA
- TOSHIBA Disc Creator
- Media Care
- TV-Out & HDMI
- Setting up more than one display
- Cleaning the computer
- Moving the computer
- Chapter 5 - The Keyboard
- Chapter 6 - Power and Power-Up Modes
- Chapter 7 - HW Setup
- Chapter 8 - Optional Devices
- Chapter 9 - Troubleshooting
- Chapter 10 - Disclaimers
- Appendix A - Specifications
- Appendix B - Display Modes
- Appendix C - AC Power Cord and Connectors
- Appendix D - If your computer is stolen
- Glossary
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Glossary-2 User’s Manual
A210
RTC: real time clock
SCSI: small computer system interface
TFT: thin-film transistor
USB: Universal Serial Bus
VESA: Video Electronic Standards Association
VGA: video graphics array
WXGA: wide extended graphics array
A
adaptor: A device that provides an interface between two dissimilar
electronic devices. For example, the AC adaptor modifies the
power from a wall outlet for use by the computer. This term also
refers to the add-in circuit cards that control external devices, such
as video monitors and magnetic tape devices.
application: A group of programs that together are used for a specific task
such as accounting, financial planning, spreadsheets, word
processing and games.
B
BIOS: Basic Input Output System. The firmware that controls data flow
within the computer. See also firmware.
bit: Derived from “binary digit,” the basic unit of information used by the
computer. It is either zero or one. Eight bits is one byte.
See also byte.
boot: Short for bootstrap. A program that starts or restarts the computer.
The program reads instructions from a storage device into the
computer’s memory.
bps: Bits per second. Typically used to describe the data transmission
speed of a modem.
buffer: The portion of the computer’s memory where data is temporarily
stored. Buffers often compensate for differences in the rate of flow
from one device to another.
bus: An interface for transmission of signals, data or electric power.
byte: The representation of a single character. A sequence of eight bits
treated as a single unit; also the smallest addressable unit within
the system.