Posts Tagged ‘Output Devices’

Input Devices || Hewitt Rand Corporation

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

You must have some way of having into your personal computer system. The standard way to make this is through the typewriter-like-part of your system called the keyboard.You can enter information into the personal computer by typing characters you link on the keyboard.

 

Another type of source of input is diskettes. Not only can you kept information on and recover information from diskettes, but you can also purchase diskettes with prerecorded information. by typing  directions on your keyboard, you can foretold the computer to read and analyze  the information recorded on these diskettes and load into the memory for processing.

 

Output Devices

The main output device for your personal computer is the monitor, s small handy television scrren attached to your keyboard, the characters you type and enter are flashed on the monitor.

In your own decision, you can also attach other output devices, such printers, plotters, and modems, to your personal computer. Several kind of printers are available. Some are very fast and economic and can print all characters including special graphics symbols, but do not produce letter-quality printout. Laser printers create typewriter output and graphics, but are somewhat slower.

Plotters are used to draw and inanimate pictures, often in color. Modems are devices that make it possible for personal computers to communicate with one another over telephone lines.

 

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Personal Computer Basics

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Your personal computer is a tool for information processing, storage and retrieval. It electronically performs tasks that were previously performed manually, and performs them quickly and more reliably. For example, before you can add a column of 100 numbers, a computer can add a column of 100,000 numbers or more, without error. Many of today’s personal computers can store more files and documents than four large office filing cabinets and still retrieve any individual file almost instantly.

The Two Sides Of The Computing System

The elements of  a computing system are divided into two categories:hardware and software. Hardware refers to the physical component while software refers to the set of instructions that the hardware carries out in precise and logical manner, much like a recipe.

All personal computers are made up of the following  seven essential components

Hardware

  • a microprocessor
  • short term storage
  • long term storage
  • input devices
  • output devices
Software
  • operating system
  • applications program