CSC105 Lecture 19 –

Peripherals: Output & Storage

Rich Little (A01) Eduard Wisernig (A02)
rlittle@uvic.ca eduardw@uvic.ca
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 Goals

 At the end of the this lecture you’ll be able to:

 Describe how various types of output to screen
works.
 Describe how image quality is affected by
resolution and bit depth.
 Recognize the various forms of data storage
devices.
 Focus for Chap 3

Four basic
functions of
computers
include:
 Receive input
 Process
information
 Produce
output
 Store
information
What Is Output?

 Output is data that

has been
processed into a
useful form
 Displays
 A display visually conveys text, graphics,
and video information
 A monitor is a display that is packaged as a
separate peripheral device
 LCD monitor
Output – Graphics Cards

 Circuit board
 Processor (GPU)
 VRAM
 BIOS
Connections and ports for video

DisplayPort
Screen Talk
 Monitor size - measured as a diagonal
line across the screen.
 Pixels (or picture element) - tiny dots
that compose a picture
 Resolution - the number of pixels
displayed on the screen (the higher the
resolution, the closer together the dots)
 Mostly given as # wide x # high
 Sometimes as pixels per inch (ppi)
 Image Quality
 Image quality is
affected by resolution
and colour depth (or
bit depth)

 Colour depth refers to

the number of
different colors a
monitor displays at
the same time
 Examples of Color Depth

1-bit depth 4-bit depth

8-bit depth 16-bit depth

 Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
 An LCD that can show colors must have three
subpixels with red, green and blue color filters
to create each color pixel.
 Through the careful control and variation of the
voltage applied, the intensity of each subpixel
can range over 256 shades.
 Combining the subpixels produces a possible
palette of 16.8 million colors
Additive Colour Model

 San
Gimignano,
Tuscany, Italy
Other Models -- not additive:
HSB
Hue 0 - 360 degrees
Saturation:% amount of grey
Brightness:% darkness or lightness

Red 56 Red 255 Red 0

Green 161 Green 255 Green 0
Blue 39 Blue 255 Blue 0
RGB as a Cube
 Going from the screen to paper

 Monitors – additive colour

 Colour printing – subtractive colour
 Laser – creates charges on a rotating drum.
 The drum attracts “toner” to the charged areas,
and then the paper rolls under the drum and the
“toner” is transferred.
 InkJet – drops of ink are sprayed onto the
page.
 The number of drops per pixel will vary.
 The ink is CMYK – we need K – black – because
CMY black is not dark enough.
RGB to CMY
 Storage
• A storage medium is
the physical material on
which a computer keeps
data, information,
programs, and
applications
• A storage device is the
hardware that records
and/or retrieves items
to and from storage
media
 Secondary Storage:
Input and Output

 Peripherals with both input

and output functions. This
form of storage is semi-
permanent
 Types include:
 Magnetic
 Optical
 Solid State
 Storage
• Capacity is the number of bytes a storage
medium can hold
 Storage
• Items on a storage medium remain intact even
when you turn off a computer or mobile
device (nonvolatile)
 Storage
• Access time measures:
– The amount of time it
takes a storage device to
locate an item on a
storage medium
– The time required to
deliver an item from
memory to the
processor
Magnetic Disks

 A hard disk, also called a hard disk

drive (HDD) contains one or more
magnetized disks called platters
 Platters are separated into concentric
tracks
 Tracks are separated

into sectors of 1s and 0s

Optical Discs
 Optical Discs
 Optical discs
commonly store
items in a single
track that spirals from
the center of the disc
to the edge of the
disc
 Track is divided into
evenly sized sectors

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Optical disks

 CD, DVD, BD
 ROM, R, RW
 Single-layer
 dual-layer
 Alternative
 Flash memory
 Compact alternative
 No moving parts
 May eventually replace
disk and tape storage