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Devices of Computer and Functions

The document provides information on various input, output, and storage devices used with computers. It describes keyboards and mice as main input devices used to communicate with computers. It also mentions webcams, microphones, printers, monitors, speakers, projectors, hard disk drives, flash drives, DVDs, CDs, memory cards as other common computer devices and what functions they serve.

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Devices of Computer and Functions

The document provides information on various input, output, and storage devices used with computers. It describes keyboards and mice as main input devices used to communicate with computers. It also mentions webcams, microphones, printers, monitors, speakers, projectors, hard disk drives, flash drives, DVDs, CDs, memory cards as other common computer devices and what functions they serve.

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Mary Grace D.

Alarcon BSBA II - 4

Input Devices
The mouse is another
Keyboard
important tool for
The keyboard is one of the
communicating with
main ways to communicate
computers. Commonly
with a computer.
known as a pointing device,
it lets you point to objects on
the screen, click on them, Optical scanners do not
and move them. distinguish text from
illustrations; they represent
A webcam is a video all images as bit maps.
camera that feeds or streams Therefore, you cannot
its image in real time to or directly edit text that has
through a computer to a been scanned.
computer network.

A microphone allows computer


users to input audio into their
computers.

Output Devices
Printers: A printer is used to print Speakers/headphones:
documents, photos, and anything Speakers and headphones are
else that appears on your screen. output devices , which means
they send information from the
computer to the user.

The monitor works with a video A projector or image projector is


card, located inside the computer an optical device that projects an
case, to display images and text image (or moving images) onto a
on the screen.
surface, commonly a projection
screen.

A video card is an expansion card


which generates a feed of output
images to a display device
Frequently, these are advertised as
discrete or dedicated

Storage Devices
A hard disk drive DVD, in full digital video
A flash drive is a disc or digital versatile disc,
(HDD) is a hardware portable computer
device that's used to type of optical disc used for
drive that uses data storage and as a
store information like flash memory.
software and files. platform for multimedia.
The primary hard disk
in a PC is the C drive.

CD-R (Compact
A memory card or
Disc-Recordable) is
memory cartridge is
a digital optical disc
an electronic data
storage format. A
storage device used
CD-R disc is a
for storing digital
compact disc that can
information, typically
be written once and
using flash memory.
read arbitrarily many
times.

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