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Choose a Page:What is a personal computer?What is the Internet?When was the first computer made?What is a CD-ROM?What are semi-conductors used for?*What is multimedia?*How do computers fly aircraft?What is a silicon chip?How do computers forecast the weather?What is a transistor?What is desktop publishing?What is a smart card?What is virtual reality? What is multimedia? Multimedia describes a computer system that includes sound and video. The information is usually held on a CD-ROM. Some multimedia applications are interactive, which means that the user can add additional data while the application is running, and can therefore affect the output. Modern computers have sophisticated multimedia features   Previous: Back Book: 1001 Section: Science and Technology Chapter: Electronics and Computers