Peripheral Device

Peripheral Device
A hardware device not part of the central computer. Examples are digitizers, plotters, and printers.
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Computers and terminals on a LAN can freely share data and peripheral devices, such as printers and plotters. LAN's are composed of cabling and special data communications hardware of software.
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X-Y digitizing tablet : A peripheral device for manually translating line and point data (like engineering and technical drawings) into some computer format (usually vector or CAD).

Computers in a LAN can share data and peripheral devices, such as printers and plotters, but do not necessarily have a link to outside computers.

Configuration The physical arrangement and connections of a computer and its related peripheral devices. This can also pertain to many computers and peripherals.

Software installation and configuration
Functional use of the software
Interfacing applications with your hardware or other peripheral devices
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Communications hardware and software that connect computers in a small area, such as a room or a building. Computers in a LAN can share data and peripheral devices, such as printers and plotters, ...

Assignment of logical names or aliases for programs or data locations on remote nodes
Control of peripheral devices from any node on the network
Passing of mail messages across nodes
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SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) - Pronounced as "scuzzy", SCSI is a type of controller card that allows peripheral devices to be hooked up one after the other so that the CPU can address several devices through one controller card.
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When a user runs GRASS, certain variables are set specifying the GRASS data base, location, mapset, peripheral device drivers, etc., being used in the current GRASS session.

data set (single record, file, group of files, other) by identifying a specific sector of memory or the disk drive (server) where it is stored for the purpose of editing, assembling, manipulating and/or directing this data set to a peripheral device.

See also: Peripheral, Geographic, Coordinate, Interface, GIS