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RJ-11

Registered Jack-11. The type of small plug and socket used by modems to connect to a telephone socket. A converter plug is needed before an RJ-11 cable can be plugged into a standard UK telephone socket (RJ-11 is a US standard).

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Virtual drive

A set of files seen by Windows as a separate hard disk.