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Input Devices: Keyboard

The document discusses various components of a computer system including input devices like keyboards, mice, scanners, and microphones. It also covers output devices such as monitors, printers, headphones, and projectors. Finally, it describes different types of computer software such as system software, application software, programming software, and various sub-types including freeware, shareware, utility software, and web browsers.

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Input Devices: Keyboard

The document discusses various components of a computer system including input devices like keyboards, mice, scanners, and microphones. It also covers output devices such as monitors, printers, headphones, and projectors. Finally, it describes different types of computer software such as system software, application software, programming software, and various sub-types including freeware, shareware, utility software, and web browsers.

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Monique Tierra
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Components of Computer System

Input Devices
Keyboard
Keyboard is among the most common and popular input device . It is used to input the data to the
computer.

Mouse
Mouse is a cursor-control device . It is a pointing and drop device.

Joystick
Just like the mouse , Joystick is also a pointing device, which is used to move cursor position
on a monitor screen.

Light Pen
Light pen is also a pointing device. Its structure is similar to that of a pen.

Track Ball
ball are used mostly in notebook or laptop computer.

Scanner
Scanner is an input device, which works on a similar principle of a photocopy machine.

Touch Screen
A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that the user can control through simple or
multi-touch gestures by touching the screen with a special stylus/pen and-or one or more fingers.

Digitizer
Digitizer is an input device which converts analog signal from the television camera into a
strings of binary digits that can be stored in a computer.

Magnetic Ink Card Reader (MICR)


As large number of cheques are processed everyday MICR serves a very useful purpose.

Optical Character Reader (OCR)


Used to read a printed text and preparation of electricity bills, insurance premium, telephone bills.

OMR (Optical Mark Recognition)


Process of capturing human-marked data from document forms such as surveys and test.

SCR (Smart Card Readers)


Smart cards containing an IC are sometimes called Integrated Circuit Cards (ICCs).

Bar Code Readers


Used for reading bar coded data Bar Code and Reader scans a bar code image by converting it into an
alphanumeric values
Microphone
A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound in air
into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids.

Webcam
A webcam is a video camera that feeds or streams its image in real time to or through a computer to
computer network. When “captured” by the computer, the video stream may be saved, viewed or sent
on to other networks via systems such as the internet, and email as an attachment.

Output Devices
Monitors
Monitor or the Visual Display Unit (VDU) is the main output device of a computer. It forms images in the
form of tiny dots, known as pixels.

Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT)


Flat-Panel Display
3-D Monitors

Printers
Printer is among the most common output device, which is used to print information on paper.

Impact Printers
The printers that print the characters by striking against a ribbon and then onto the paper, are
called impact printers.

Character printers
Dot matrix printer
Daisy Wheel
Line Printers
Drum Printer
Chain Printer
Non-impact Printers
Laser Printers
Inkjet Printers

Headphones
Headphones are a hardware device that either plugs into your computer (line out) or your speakers

Speaker
A hardware device connected to a computer’s sound card that outputs sounds generated by the
computer. It needs a sound card connected to a CPU, that generates sound via a card.

Projector
Projector is an output device that can take images generated by a computer and reproduce them on a
large.

Types of computer software


Software is the program that run the computer and allows us to use it. There are different types of
computer software, all of which serve a specific purpose. In learning about computers, one of the first
steps is to understand the major types of software, their uses, and applications.

Types of Computer Software


System Software
System software coordinates the activities and functions of hardware and software, and it controls the
operations of computer hardware and provides an environment or platform for all the other types of
software to work in. It is the most basic type of software in any computer system, which is essential for
other programs, applications and the whole computer system to function.

(System software examples – Microsoft Windows XP, Mac O

S, Linux, Windows Vista, Ubuntu, device drivers, etc.)

Application Software
Application software is what helps the user perform the tasks of his/her choice. They are non-essential
software which are installed and run, depending upon the requirements, in the environment provided
by the system software.

(Application software examples – MS Office, OpenOffice, Media Players, MS Access, educational


software, media development software, Antivirus software, etc. )

Programming Software
Programming software is used to write, test, debug and develop other software programs and
applications. The various programming language editors such as Eclipse – a Java language editor –
appear under this category. They are used for creating both the system as well as application software.

(Programming software examples – Turbo C, Xilinx, Kiel, compilers, debuggers, Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), etc.)

Sub-types of Computer Software


Apart from the above main types of software there are many other subtypes, which will be mentioned
below.

Freeware – Freeware is a type of software that anyone can download from the Internet and use for free.

(Examples – Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, uTorrent, etc.)


Shareware – Shareware is usually distributed for free on a trial basis. It can be shared without violation
of any laws. They usually stop working or prompt the user to purchase the full version, once the trial
period expires.

(Examples – BearShare, Kazaa, Winzip, etc.)

Registry Cleaners – When you install a lot of software – or games for example – your computer’s
registry becomes clogged. Registry cleaners are used to clean up or delete all the invalid registry entries
which has the benefit of speeding up your computer.

(Examples- TuneUp Utilities, Eusing, etc.)

Content Control Software – This kind of software allows you to control the content that can be accessed
by a user on a computer. They are mostly used for restricting access over the Internet.

(Example- K9 Web Protection, PGSurfer, etc.)

Project Management Software – As its name suggests, project management software is a software
package that helps multiple users to work on a project simultaneously. It allows them to schedule
events, network with the other users, allocate resources, etc.

(Example- Microsoft Office Project Server, HyperOffice, 24SevenOffice, etc.)

Utility Software – These are usually small programs that help the management of the hardware and the
application software installed on a computer.

(Example- Disk defragmenters, Disk cleaners, etc.)

Open Source Software – This is a type of software for which the source code is available to all users
(open). As such, anyone can make changes to it and release their own new version.

(Example – Linux, Android OS, OpenOffice, etc.)

Web Browsers – Browsers are programs that allow you to surf or browse web pages on the Internet.

(Example – Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, etc.)

With constant advancements in the field of software engineering, several new software and applications
are being developed every day. Hence, the list provided above shouldn’t be considered definitive, as in
the coming years, many more newer types of software would have been developed.

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