auxiliary equipment

English Thesaurus

1. electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	electronic equipment,
definition	:	equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor) (noun.artifact)

part meronym	:	adp system, adps, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system,
definition	:	a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage (noun.artifact)