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Program Instructions and Manage The Functions of Input, Output, and Storage Devices

The document lists and describes various computer hardware components. It discusses the CPU, computer case, monitor, video card, keyboard, mouse, touchpad, CD/DVD drives, floppy disk drives, hard disks, RAM, printer, barcode reader, scanner, microphone, speakers, sound card, modem, and network card. The components are both input and output devices that allow the computer to process data and communicate information to users.

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Program Instructions and Manage The Functions of Input, Output, and Storage Devices

The document lists and describes various computer hardware components. It discusses the CPU, computer case, monitor, video card, keyboard, mouse, touchpad, CD/DVD drives, floppy disk drives, hard disks, RAM, printer, barcode reader, scanner, microphone, speakers, sound card, modem, and network card. The components are both input and output devices that allow the computer to process data and communicate information to users.

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Computer Parts

1. CPU (Central Processing Unit): The CPU The chip or chips that interpret and execute program instructions and manage the functions of input, output, and storage devices.

2. Computer Case: Contains the major components of the computer. It helps protect them.

Front of the Computer Case

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Inside the Computer Case

3. Monitor: A display screen to provide output! to the user. It is "here you vie" the information your are "or#ing on.

. !ideo Card: Connects the computer to the monitor. It is a circuit $oard attached to the mother$oard that contains the memory and other circuitry necessary to send information to the monitor for display on screen.

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". #e$%oard: Used to enter information into the computer and for giving commands.

&. Mouse: An input device operated $y rolling its $all across a flat surface. The mouse is used to control the on%screen pointer $y pointing and clic#ing, dou$le%clic#ing, or dragging o$jects on the screen.

7. Touchpad: A pressure%sensitive and motion sensitive device used in place of a mouse.

8. CD Rom Drive: The drive that plays C&s and reads data that has $een stored on the C&.

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'. C(: Compact (is) * A type of optical storage device.

1+. Flopp$ (is) (ri,e' A device that holds a remova$le floppy dis# "hen in use( read)"rite heads read and "rite data to the dis#ette.

11. -ard (is)' *agnetic storage device in the computer.

12. ./M: .andom /ccess Memor$ +A* is a computer,s temporary memory, "hich exists as chips on the mother$oard near the CPU. It stores data or programs "hile they are $eing used and re-uires po"er.

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13. Printer: An output device that produces a hard copy on paper. It gives information to the user in printed form.

1 . 0arcode .eader: An input device that converts a pattern of printed $ars into a num$er that a computer can read. They are often used $y $usinesses to -uic#ly input price and product information.

1". 1canner: A device that allo"s pictures to $e placed into a computer.

1&. Microphone: Allo"s the user to record sounds as input to their computer.

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12. 1pea)ers: Used to generate or reproduce voice, music, and other sounds.

13. 1ound Card: Connects the spea#ers and microphone to the computer.

1'. Modem: The place "here the computer is connected to the phone line.

2+. 4et5or) Card: A circuit $oard that connects the computer to the rest of the net"or# usually using special ca$les.

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