COMPUTER DEVICES

COMPUTER INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES

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A computer is an electronic device that
works under instructions given by the
user to accept, process and output
information as required.
A computer has two types of devices which
help the user to enter data into the
computer and allows the computer to
display result of the processed data as
required by the user. They include:

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INPUT DEVICES;
1.An input device is a piece of computer
hardware equipment used to provide
data and control signals to
an information processing system such as
a computer or information appliance
These are devices which allow the user to
enter data into the computer. For
example
The mouse, keyboard,
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Keyboard

Keyboard is the most common and very

popular input device which helps to input
data to the computer. The layout of the
keyboard is like that of traditional
typewriter, although there are some
additional keys provided for performing
additional functions.

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The Keyboard

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The Mouse

Mouse is the most popular pointing device. It is a

very famous cursor-control device having a small
palm size box with a round ball at its base, which
senses the movement of the mouse and sends
corresponding signals to the CPU when the
mouse buttons are pressed.
Generally, it has two buttons called the left and the
right button and a wheel is present between the
buttons. A mouse can be used to control the
position of the cursor on the screen, but it
cannot be used to enter text into the computer.

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THE MOUSE

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The Joystick
Joystick is also a pointing device, which is
used to move the cursor position on a
monitor screen. It is a stick having a
spherical ball at its both lower and upper
ends. The lower spherical ball moves in a
socket. The joystick can be moved in all
four directions

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The Joy stick

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Light Pen

 Light pen is a pointing device similar to a

pen. It is used to select a displayed menu
item or draw pictures on the monitor
screen. It consists of a photocell and an
optical system placed in a small tube.
 When the tip of a light pen is moved over
the monitor screen and the pen button is
pressed, its photocell sensing element
detects the screen location and sends the
corresponding signal to the CPU.

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A Light pen

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Track Ball

Track ball is an input device that is mostly

used in notebook or laptop computer,
instead of a mouse. This is a ball which is
half inserted and by moving fingers on the
ball, the pointer can be moved.
 Since the whole device is not moved, a
track ball requires less space than a
mouse. A track ball comes in various
shapes like a ball, a button, or a square.

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The track ball

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Scanner
 Scanner is an input device, which works
more like a photocopy machine. It is used
when some information is available on paper
and it is to be transferred to the hard disk of
the computer for further manipulation.
 Scanner captures images from the source
which are then converted into a digital form
that can be stored on the disk. These images
can be edited before they are printed.

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The Scanner

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Digitizer

 Digitizer is an input device which

converts analog information into digital
form. Digitizer can convert a signal from
the television or camera into a series of
numbers that could be stored in a
computer. They can be used by the
computer to create a picture of whatever
the camera had been pointed at.

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The Digitiliser

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Microphone

 Microphone is an input device to input

sound that is then stored in a digital form.
 The microphone is used for various
applications such as adding sound to a
multimedia presentation or for mixing
music.

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The microphone

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Magnetic Ink Card Reader
(MICR)
 MICR input device is generally used in
banks as there are large number of
cheques to be processed every day. The
bank's code number and cheque number
are printed on the cheques with a special
type of ink that contains particles of
magnetic material that are machine
readable

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Magnetic Ink Card Reader
(MICR)

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Optical Character Reader
(OCR)
 OCR is an input device used to read a
printed text.
 OCR scans the text optically, character by
character, converts them into a machine
readable code, and stores the text on the
system memory.

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Optical Character Reader
(OCR)

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Bar Code Readers

 Bar Code Reader is a device used for

reading bar coded data (data in the form
of light and dark lines). Bar coded data is
generally used in labeling goods,
numbering the books, etc. It may be a
handheld scanner or may be embedded in
a stationary scanner.

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The Bar Code Readers

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Optical Character Reader
(OCR)
 OMR is a special type of optical scanner
used to recognize the type of mark made
by pen or pencil. It is used where one out
of a few alternatives is to be selected and
marked.
 It is specially used for checking the
answer sheets of examinations having
multiple choice questions.

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The Optical Character Reader
(OCR)

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OUTPUT DEVICES

The Following are some of the important

output devices used in a computer.
 Monitors
 Graphic Plotter
 Printer

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Monitors

Monitors, commonly called as Visual Display

Unit (VDU), are the main output device of a
computer. It forms images from tiny dots,
called pixels that are arranged in a
rectangular form. The sharpness of the image
depends upon the number of pixels.
There are two kinds of viewing screen used
for monitors.
 Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT)
 Flat-Panel Display

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The monitor

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Printers

Printer is an output device, which is used to

print information on paper.
There are two types of printers −
 Impact Printers
 Non-Impact Printers

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The printer

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REFRENCES

 RETRIEVED FROM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_device
 Null, Linda; Julia Lobur (2006). The Essentials of
Computer Organization and Architecture. Jones & Bartlett
Learning. p. 185. ISBN 0763737690. Archived from the
original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 11
December 2016.
 Abd-El-Barr, Mostafa; Hesham El-Rewini
(2005). Fundamentals of Computer Organization and
Architecture. John Wiley & Sons. p. 161-
162. ISBN 9780471478331. Archived from the original
on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016

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Thank you

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