Input, Output and Secondary Storage.

Input, Output and Secondary Storage.

1. INPUT

   • Input devices are thing that are manually put into the computer. Some of examples of these are: Keyboards, Mouse (Other Pointer Devices), Microphones and scanner.

2. Output

   • Output is when information that has been processed by the computer and has been put into a physical form or displayed on the devices screen, some examples of these would be: Printers, Speakers, Flat screen Projectors.

3. Secondary Storage

   • Computers use RAM (Random Access Memory) as working storage for processing data. The problem is that RAM is medium volatile meaning when the computer is turned of the RAM loses all of its data. Therefore the job/purpose of secondary storage is to keep the memory that the RAM can not.
   • Some examples:

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