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Input Output Devices

The document provides an overview of computer storage and input/output devices. It describes hard drives as common storage devices and lists various input devices such as mice, keyboards, and scanners, along with their functions. Additionally, it explains output devices like monitors and printers, highlighting their roles in displaying and producing data.

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Input Output Devices

The document provides an overview of computer storage and input/output devices. It describes hard drives as common storage devices and lists various input devices such as mice, keyboards, and scanners, along with their functions. Additionally, it explains output devices like monitors and printers, highlighting their roles in displaying and producing data.

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Storage Device A Hard Drive

Computer storage device is any type of hardware that


stores data. The most common type of storage device,
which nearly all computers have, is a hard drive.

INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES

Input Devices
Input device is a hardware device that sends information to the computer.

Mouse
Mouse is a pointer device.The
mouse allows an individual to
control a pointer in a graphical user
interface (GUI). Utilizing a mouse a
user has the ability to perform
various functions such as opening a
program or file and does not require
the user to memorize commands.

Digital camera
A type of camera that stores the
pictures or video it takes in
electronic format instead of to film.
Web Cam
A camera connected to a computer
that allows anyone connected to the
Internet to view still pictures or
motion video of a user.

Joystick
A computer joystick allows an
individual to easily navigate an
object in a game such as navigating
a plane in a flight simulator.

Keyboard
One of the main input devices used
on a computer, a computer
keyboard looks very similar to the
keyboards of electric typewriters,
with some additional keys.

Microphone
Sometimes abbreviated as mic, a
microphone is a hardware
peripheral that allows computer
users to input audio into their
computers.
Scanner
Input device that allows a user to
take an image and/or text and
convert it into a digital file, allowing
the computer to read and/or display
the scanned object

Output Device
Any peripheral that receives and/or displays output from a computer. Below are some examples
of different types of output devices commonly found on a computer.
Monitor
A monitor is a video display screen. Monitor is also called as Visual Display Unit (VDU) or Video
Display Terminal (VDT).

CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Monitors are built LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Monitors are
very similarly to older (tube) television sets. thin and flat. They are light, compact, take up
They are heavy, bulky, take up a lot of desk very little desk space emit no known radiation.
space, and emit radiation.
Printer
A printer is an output device responsible for
taking computer data and generating a hard
copy of that data.

Speakers
Projector

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