IT Ls 2

INPUT DEVICES
1. Keyboard:- a) QWERTY
b) DVORAK
2. Mouse:- a) Mechanical Mouse
b) Optical Mouse
c) Cordless Mouse
3. Joystick
4. Scanner:- a) Handheld Scanner
b) Flatbed Scanner
c) Sheetfed Scanner
d) Drum Scanner
5. Microphone
6. Optical Character Reader (OCR)
7. Magnetic Ink Character Reader (MICR)
8. Light Pen
9. Barcode Reader
10. Digital Camera
11. Web Camera

OUTPUT DEVICES
1. Monitor:- a) Cathode Rays Tube Monitor (CRT Monitor)
b) Liquid Crystal Display Monitor (LCD Monitor)
c) Thin Film Transistor LCD (TFT LCD)
d) Light Emitting Diode Monitor (LED Monitor)

2. Printer:- a) Impact Printers:-

i) Dot Matrix
ii) Daisy Wheel
b) Non-Impact Printers:-
 i) Inkjet Printer
ii) Laser Printer
3. Plotter:- a) Flatbed Plotter
b) Drum Plotter
4. Speakers

STORAGE/MEMORY UNIT
1. Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

2. Optical Disc:- a) Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD – ROM)

i) Compact Disc Recordable (CDR)
ii) Compact Disc Re-Writable (CD-RW)
b) Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
i) DVD Recordable (DVD-R)
ii) DVD Re-Writable (DVD-RW)
c) Blu – ray Disc
i) Blu – ray Disc Recordable (BD-R)
ii) Blu – ray Disc Re-Writable (BD-RE)
d) Pen Drive/Flash Drive
e) Memory Stick
 MEMORY MEASUREMENTS UNIT IN COMPUTER
Name (Symbol) Amount Is Equal to
Bit 4 bits 1 Nibble
Bit 8 bits 1 Byte
Byte 1024 Bytes 1 Kilobyte
Kilobyte (KB) 1024 Kilobytes 1 Megabyte
Megabyte (MB) 1024 Megabytes 1 Gigabyte
Gigabyte (GB) 1024 Gigabytes 1 Terabyte
Terabyte (TB) 1024 Terabytes 1 Petabyte
Petabyte (PB) 1024 Petabytes 1 Exabyte
Exabyte (EB) 1024 Exabytes 1 Zettabyte
Zettabyte (ZB) 1024 Zettabytes 1 Yottabyte

INVENTIONS
Invention Year Inventor
World’s first single chip 1971 Intel
microprocessor –
Intel 4004
QWERTY Keyboard 1875 Christopher Latham Sholes
Mouse 1960’s Douglas Englebart
Computer Joystick 1998 Shu Ming Liu of Taipe, A-Ming
Chang of Taiwan & Lu-Chou of
Taiwan
200 dpi black and white 1984 Microtek
Sheet fed Scanner
CRT Monitor 1897 Karl Ferdinand Braun
CD-ROM 1965 James Russel
Blu-Ray Disc April, 2004 Jacques Ammot
Memory Stick October, 1998 Sony