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    Input devices allow users to provide input to computers and include keyboards, mice, touch screens, and microphones. Keyboards are commonly used to enter text and data into computers using keys and have advantages like entering any type of data quickly using shortcut keys, but disadvantages like not being able to create diagrams or charts and being slower than using a mouse. Keyboards work by completing a circuit when a key is pressed, which the CPU uses to identify the pressed key and its corresponding ASCII value from an index file to recognize the input character.

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    Input devices allow users to provide input to computers and include keyboards, mice, touch screens, and microphones. Keyboards are commonly used to enter text and data into computers using keys and have advantages like entering any type of data quickly using shortcut keys, but disadvantages like not being able to create diagrams or charts and being slower than using a mouse. Keyboards work by completing a circuit when a key is pressed, which the CPU uses to identify the pressed key and its corresponding ASCII value from an index file to recognize the input character.

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    Input devices allow users to provide input to computers and include keyboards, mice, touch screens, and microphones. Keyboards are commonly used to enter text and data into computers using keys and have advantages like entering any type of data quickly using shortcut keys, but disadvantages like not being able to create diagrams or charts and being slower than using a mouse. Keyboards work by completing a circuit when a key is pressed, which the CPU uses to identify the pressed key and its corresponding ASCII value from an index file to recognize the input character.

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    INPUT

    DEVICES
    WHAT IS AN INPUT DEVICE?

    • Input devices are tools that


    you use to provide input into
    a computer.
    • Mouse, keyboard,
    microphone, touch screen etc.
    KEYBOARD
    • A piece of a computer hardware used to
    input data into a computer.
    • Mostly commonly used type is QWERTY.
    • Some keyboards have numeric keypad,
    volume control, power down and many
    more.
    01 02 03
    ADVANTAGES OF A Enter any type Chat with other Work quickly
    KEYBOARD of data. people. with shortcut
    keys.
    Not possible to make
    diagrams or charts.

    DISADVANTAGES OF A
    KEYBOARD Can be damaged easily.

    Slow in operating
    compared to a mouse.
    When a key is pressed on The CPU can then
    the keyboard, it identify which key has
    completes a circuit. been pressed.

    WORKING
    PRINCIPLE
    The CPU refers to an Each character on the
    index file to keyboard has a
    identify which character corresponding ASCII
    the key press represents. value.

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