COMPUTER DEVICES

 Input Devices
1. Keyboard - A computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of
buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

2. Mice - A computer mouse is a handheld hardware input device that controls a cursor in a GUI
(graphical user interface) and can move and select text, icons, files, and folders on
your computer. For desktop computers, the mouse is placed on a flat surface in front of

your computer.
3. Scanners - A scanner is an input device that scans documents such as photographs and pages
of text. This creates an electronic version of the document that can be viewed and edited on
a computer. Most scanners are flatbed devices which mean they have a flat scanning surface.
4. Digital camera - A digital camera is a hardware device that takes photographs and stores the
image as data on a memory card.
5. Joysticks - A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports
its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Joysticks are often used to control video
games, and usually have one or more push-buttons whose state can also be read by
the computer.
 Output Devices
1. Monitor - A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial form.
A monitor usually comprises the visual display, circuitry, casing, and power supply.

2. Printer - A printer is an output device that prints paper documents. This includes text documents,
images, or a combination of both. 
3. Headphones - Headphones are a hardware output device that either plug into a computer line

out or speakers. Headphones allow you to listen to audio or watch a movie without disturbing

people around you.

4. Projector - A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or

moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen.
 5. Video card - A video card (also called a graphics card, display card, graphics adapter,
or display adapter) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to
a display device (such as a computer monitor).

 Storage Devices
1. Hard drive - A hard drive is the hardware component that stores all of your digital content.
Your documents, pictures, music, videos, programs, application preferences, and operating
system represent digital content stored on a hard drive.

2. Floppy disk - A floppy disk is a magnetic storage medium for computer systems. The floppy

disk is composed of a thin, flexible magnetic disk sealed in a square plastic carrier. In order to
read and write data from a floppy disk, a computer system must have a floppy disk drive

(FDD).
3. SuperDisk - SuperDisk is a disk drive and diskette introduced by 3M, which later became
Imation. The drive was most popular with OEM computers, such as Compaq and Packard
Bell computers.
 4. Tape cassette - tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is
an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

5. Compact disk - Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-
developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

 Communication Devices
1. Bluetooth - Bluetooth is a short-range wireless connection that many smaller devices use to
communicate with a computer.

2. Infrared – Infrared widely used in most audio and video remote controls, infrared transmission
is also used for wireless connections between computer devices and a variety of detectors.
 3. Network card - A network interface card (also known as a NIC, network card, or network
interface controller) is an electronic device that connects a computer to a computer network,
usually a LAN. It is considered a piece of computer hardware. Network cards let
a computer exchange data with a network.

4. Smartphone - A smartphone is a cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other

features not originally associated with telephones such as an operating system, web browsing,
and the ability to run software applications.

5. Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi is a wireless network that utilizes one of the IEEE 802.11 wireless standards to
achieve a wireless connection to a network.

 Process (System Unit Parts and Devices)

1. Motherboard - The motherboard is a printed circuit board and foundation of a computer that is the
biggest board in a computer chassis. It allocates power and allows communication to and between
the CPU, RAM, and all other computer hardware components.
2. CPU or Processor - The processor, also known as the CPU, provides the instructions and
processing power the computer needs to do its work.

3. RAM - (Random Access Memory) is the hardware in a computing device where the operating
system (OS), application programs and data in current use are kept so they can be quickly
reached by the device's processor. RAM is the main memory in a computer.

4. Power supply unit - A power supply unit (PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC
power for the internal components of a computer. 

5. Computer fan - A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active
cooling. Fans are used to draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from
inside and move air across a heat sink to cool a particular component.