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Peripherals Device
Peripherals Device
Device Drivers
Keyboard
– P/S2 keyboard
– USB keyboard
– Wireless keyboard
Input Devices (2)
Pointing Devices
– Mouse, trackball, touch pad, light pen, digitizer
– Touch screen
Input Devices (3)
Scanning devices
– Image scanner
– Fax machine – scan image to bitmap
– Bar code scanner – scan Universal Product Code
(UPC)
– Magnetic ink character scanner (MICR)
– Optical character scanner (OCR)
– Optical mark scanner (OMR)
Input Devices (4)
Inkjet printer
– produce good quality colour output
– resolution up to 1440 dpi
– use ink droplets to compose the image
– The printer is much cheaper than laser printer but
the ink is very expensive
Output Devices (4)
Plotter
– Drawing high quality image, use colour pens, can
draw smooth curves
– Can print on large paper size, use roll of paper
– To draw posters and maps
– Use in CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Output Device (6)
Hard Disk
– High storage capacity, over 100 GB
– Hard metallic surface
– Consists of several metallic disks
– Data are stored in cylinder (a deck of tracks)
(see p.86)
– Use magnetic technology
– Very high access speed
– Random access
Storage Device (3)
Optical disk
– CDROM, DVDROM, CDRW, DVDRW
– Use optical technology, laser reflection on pits
– ‘1’ will reflect the laser beam while ‘0’ does not
– High storage capacity, 700 MB for a CDROM,
17GB for a DVDROM
– Random access
– High access speed
Storage Device (4)
Tape
– Cheap
– Sequential access
– Use magnetic technology
– Ideal for backup data, we need to backup and restore all
data
– High storage capacity
– Slow access speed
– Group of records are stored in a block
– Inter-block gaps are needed for stopping and starting the
read/write head.
Storage Device (5)
Connectors
RJ-45 telephone jack connector
– For connecting twisted pairs LAN cable
BNC connector
– For connecting coaxial cables
Network Device (3)
Terminators
– Use in bus network, to prevent signal rebounce and
echo at the ends of bus.
Network Device (4)
Hub
– To connect the workstations within a room on same
floor
Switch
– To connect the workstations for different floors in a
building, it is faster and more efficient than a Hub.
Router
– To connect different LANs together to form a Wide
Area Network (WAN)
Network Device (5)
Repeater
– When a network spans a long distance, the signal
weaken, repeater is used to reproduce the signal.
Exchange
– To boost the signals along the network path for a
Wide Area Network.
Network Device (6)
Computer
– Different computers play different roles on a network
Server
– Provide services to other computers connected to
the network, usually have higher processing power
and larger storage capacity.
Workstation
– The computers connected to the network but not act
as a server.
Network Device (7) - Servers
File server
– control the sharing and access of files over the network,
must have a huge storage capacity.
Print server
– Manage the print jobs from different computers to different
network printers, and manage the print queues.
Web server
– To host a web site and publish web pages on the web,
support HTML, Java script, CGI, PHP and ASP web
languages
Email server
– To store, send and receive emails over the Internet
Internet server
– To provide Internet access
Communication Device
Modem - Modulator-demodulator
– It transforms digital signals of computer to analog
signals to be transmitted through telephone lines.
(Modulation)
– It also transforms analog signals back to digital
signals for the computer that receives the signals.
(Demodulation)
Data/Signal Rate
Data Rate
– Refer to the no. of bits per second sent
Signaling Rate (Baud Rate)
– Refer to the no. of signals per second sent
– Each signal may consists of several bits e.g. 101
Bandwidth
– The frequency range of a particular media
– is directly proportional to the data rate
Types of network
Client-Server Network
– Some computers act as server to provide services to clients
on the network
– Server programs are running on the server
– Client programs are running on client computers
Peer-to-peer Network
– Every computer plays the same role in the network. They
form a workgroup, no server and no client
– The security in a peer-to-peer network is low.
– It is easy to set up, since no server programs or client
programs need to be run.