hardware

hardware

1. input

   • Any machine that feeds data into a computer. For example, a keyboard is an input devices
   • touchscreens
   • trackball
   • joystick
   • mouse
   • keyboards
   • Imaging and input devices
   • webcam
   • microphones

2. output

   • monitor
   • speaker
   • plotter
   • printer
   • Refreshable braille display
   • An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate the results of data processing carried out by an information processing system

3. storges

   • a piece of computer equipment on which information can be stored.
   • Paper data storage media
     • Punched card
     • Edge-notched card
     • Optical mark recognition
     • Optical character recognition
     • Barcode
     • Paper disc
   • Magnetic storage media
     • Hard disk
     • Floppy disk
     • Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
     • BD-R
   • Optical storage media
     • CD
     • DVD
     • HD DVD
     • LaserDisc
     • CD-RW
     • CD-R
     • DVD-R DL

4. types of computers

   • Microcomputers
     • SmartTV
     • Workstation
     • Desktop
     • microconsole
     • Home console
   • Mobile
     • Laptop
       • Desktop replacement computer ·
       • Notebook
       • Smartbook
       • Ultra-mobile PC
     • Information appliance
       • Handheld PC
       • Mobile phone