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OCR: 1-26 Us. ING COMF P U TERS Ess ENTIAL CONCEPTS Mo ni itor How are the monitor and user interface related? monitor 1S required output device for just about every computer user interface. Whereas you manipulate the keyboard and mouse to communicate with the computer the monitor what the compute r manipulates to communicate with you by displaying results, prompts menus, pue graphical objects Monitor display technology determines whether the interface designer can in clude color and ar aphical objects The first microcomputer monitors and the displays on many mainframe terminals still in use today were character -based cha racter based display divides the screen into grid of rectangles which can each display single character. The Set of characters that the screen can display is not modifiable: ...