All computer hardware components used to feed raw and other data to a computer system are categorized as input hardware devices.
The following is a list of commonly used input devices:
- Keyboards
- Pointing devices:
Mouse Touchpad Touchscreen Multi touch screen Pen input Motion sensor Graphics tablet Interactive smartboard
- Game controller devices:
Joystick Gamepad Steering wheel
- Audio input devices:
Microphone Midi keyboard
- Visual and Imaging devices:
Webcam Digital camera Digital camcorder Tv capture card Scanner Barcode reader
Output Hardware
Hardware components that disseminate and display both data and information are of the output category. All computer output forms are the culmination of the purpose the computer is tasked to accomplish.
Output devices are categorized under softcopy output and hardcopy output. Softcopy output is usually related to the experience the user derives from interacting with the computer.
The user derives visual pleasure by watching a movie he downloaded from...
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Storage Hardware
The parts of the computer that are used to store data in whatever form are classified as storage devices. Computer storage is either primary or secondary and is either volatile or nonvolatile.
Primary memory is commonly used to mean random access memory (RAM) but actually refers to all memory that work in tandem with the processor. The central processing unit (CPU) or accelerated processing unit (APU) read instructions...
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