INPUT OUTPUT DEVICES

A computer system needs to communicate

with its external environment its user). The
Input/output devices provide this
capability to a computer system. they are
also known as peripheral devices, because
they surround a computer's cpu and
memory.
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INPUT DEVICE
Input devices are used to enter data from outside
world into primary storage & output devices supply
the result of processing from primary storage to
users.

Input device is any peripheral (piece of computer

h/w equipment) used to provide data & control
signals to an information processing system.
Input/output devices make up the h/w interface
between a computer .
THE MOST COMMON INPUT DEVICES ARE FOLLOWING.

1. Keyboard
2. Mouse
3. Scanner
4. Joystick
5. Trackball
 KEYBOARD
The keyboard is the main input device for computers. For
instance, boot up a computer without a keyboard and it
stops, warning the user that no keyboard is attached.

The keyboard is the only tool available at the command

prompt, so it is a necessity for a computer.

It is also used in almost every application like spreadsheets,

email, word processing documents and coding.
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It is possible to interact with most computers solely
through the keyboard, without even a mouse, because
they are usually the default input device. Touch screens
may eventually overcome the keyboard as well, by
providing an onscreen keyboard to save space.
The keyboard is the most common input device. It is
almost unheard of for a computer to be without some form
of keyboard, be it a full QWERTY keyboard or a smaller
number pad, such as those found on a cell phone
 MICE AND OTHER POINTING DEVICES
Other than the keyboard, mice are the most common type of
input device.
Nearly every computer has one, and they make navigating the
screen much easier than trying to use just a keyboard.
Mice usually use a ball, light, or a laser to track movement.
Similar peripherals, such as a touch screen or laptop's
touchpad, trackballs, graphics tablets, and even joysticks are
pointing input devices.
Touch screens are becoming an increasingly popular pointing
device, and someday may replace mice altogether.
SCANNER
Scanners allow information such as a photo or text to be
input into a computer.
Scanners are usually either A4 size (flatbed), as shown
below, or hand-held to scan a much smaller area.
If text is to be scanned, you would use an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) program to recognize the printed text
and then convert it to a digital text file that can be accessed
using a computer.
TRACKBALL
A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball
housed in a socket containing sensors to detect
rotation of the ball about two axes - like a mouse lying
on its back.
The cursor is moved about the screen by a user rolling
the ball with their thumb, fingers, or the palm of their
hand.
There are usually one to three buttons next to the ball,
which are in the same way as mouse buttons.
 The principal advantages of trackballs over mice
is that since it is stationary, it requires less space to use,
and it can be operated on any type of surface, including the
user's lap.
These attributes make a trackball particularly suitable for
use with portable computers, and they were widely used on
laptop PCs before the advent of the touchpad.
A further benefit is that because there is no need to
physically move the device around
Like traditional mice, trackballs can be communicate with a
PC through serial or USB connections, or in the case of
wireless mice, via infrared or radio frequency.
 joystick
A joystick is a PC peripheral or general control device consisting
of a handheld stick that pivots about one end and transmits its
angle in two or three dimensions to a computer.
Most joysticks are two-dimensional, having two axes of
movement (similar to a mouse), but three-dimensional joysticks
do exist.
A joystick is generally configured so that moving the stick left
or right signals movement along the X axis, and moving it
forward (up) or back (down) signals movement along the Y axis.
In joysticks that are configured for three-dimensional
movement, twisting the stick left (counter-clockwise) or right
(clockwise) signals movement along the Z axis.
STORAGE DEVICE
A storage device is a hardware device designed to store
information. There are two types of storage devices used in
computers; a 'primary storage' device and a 'secondary storage'
device.
term used to describe any location where information can be
held permanently or temporarily for later use. A computer
commonly has two types of storage: internal and external. For
example, an internal storage is a device such as a hard disk
drive and an external / removable storage is a device such as a
floppy disk drive. Below are examples of types of storage that
can be found on a computer.
Floppy disk drive
A Floppy Disk Drive, or FDD for short, is a computer
disk drive that enables a user to easily save data to
removable diskettes.
Although 8" disk drives were the first real disk drives,
the first widely used an floppy disk drives were the 5
1/4" floppy disk drives, which were later replaced with
3 1/2" floppy disk drives.
However, today because of the limited capacity and
reliability of floppy diskettes many computers no
longer come equipped with floppy disk drives and are
being replaced with CD-R and other writable disc
drives and flash drives.
CD-ROM
Short for Compact Disc-Read Only Memory, CD-
ROM drives are CD players inside computers
that can have speeds in the range from 1x and
beyond, and have the capability of playing
audio CDs and computer data CDs.
Hard drive
The computer's main storage media device used to
permanently store all data on the computer.
Also referred to as a hard disk drive or abbreviated as
HD or HDD, the hard drive was first introduced on
September 13, 1956 and consists of one or more
hard disk platters inside of air sealed casing.
Most hard drives are permanently stored in an
internal drive bay at the front of the computer and are
connected with either ATA, SCSI, or a SATA cable and
power cable. Below is an illustration of the inside of a
hard disk drive.
 Below is a picture of the front and back of a
standard CD-ROM drive.
Output device
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 (such as a
computer) to the outside world.
 In computing, input/output, or I/O, refers to the
communication between an information processing
system (such as a computer), and the outside world.
Inputs are the signals or data sent to the system, and
outputs are the signals or data sent by the system to
the outside.
EXAMPLES OF OUTPUT DEVICES:

Speaker
Headphones

Screen (Monitor)

Printer
 SPEAKER
Computer speakers, or multimedia speakers, are speakers
external to a computer, that disable the lower fidelity built-in
speaker.
They often have a low-power internal amplifier.
Computer speakers range widely in quality and in price.
The computer speakers typically packaged with computer
systems are small, plastic, and have mediocre sound quality.
Some computer speakers have equalization features such as
bass and treble
 HEADPHONES
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeakers, or less
commonly a single speaker, with a way of holding them close
to a user's ears and a means of connecting them to a signal
source such as an audio amplifier, radio or CD player.
They are also known as stereo phones, headsets.
The in-ear versions are known as earphones or ear buds.
In the context of telecommunication, the term headset is
used to describe a combination of headphone and
microphone used for two-way communication, for example
with a telephone.
MONITOR
A Monitor or Display (sometimes called a visual
display unit) is an electronic visual display for
computers.
The monitor comprises the display device,
circuitry, and an enclosure.
The display device in modern monitors is
typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal
display (TFT-LCD) thin panel, while older
monitors use a cathode ray tube about as deep
as the screen size.