An Ethernet card in your computer serves one basic function: to transmit data from the network to your computer. Ethernet cards are physical expansion cards that insert into a PCI expansion slot ...

The ability to use a keyboard and mouse are the most basic of all computer competencies. Employees must be confident in their typing abilities, typing at least 35 words per minute.

BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

The FeTRAM technology fulfills the three basic functions of computer memory: to write information, read the information and hold it for a long period of time.

Called FeTRAM, for ferroelectric transistor random access memory, the new technology fulfills the three basic functions of computer memory; writing, reading and storing information for a long time.