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Paste any six input and output hardware of computer
and describe them all.
Any six input devices are: Keyboard – A keyboard is one of the most common and very popular input devices which helps to input data to the computer. The layout of the keyboard is like that of traditional typewriter, although there are some additional keys provided for performing additional functions. Different Keyboards have different keys. Some keyboard have 84 keys or 101/102 keys, but now most keyboards are available with 104 keys and 108 keys.
Mouse – A mouse is the most popular
input handled pointing device. Generally, it has three buttons called the left and the right button and a scroll button. The mouse can be used to enter text into the computer. Joystick – A joystick is also a pointing device which is used to move the cursor position on a monitor screen. It is a stick having a spherical ball at its both lower and upper ends. The lower spherical ball moves in a socket. The joystick can be moved in all four directions. The function of the joystick is similar to the mouse. It is mainly used in Computer Aided Designing (CAD) and playing computer games. Light pen – A light pen is a pointing device similar to a pen. It is used to select a displayed menu item or draw pictures on the monitor screen. It consists of a photocell and an optical system placed in a small tube. When the tip of the light pen is moved over the monitor screen and the pen button is pressed, its photocell sensing element detects the screen location and sends the corresponding signal to the CPU. Track ball – A track ball is an input device that is mostly used in notebook or laptop computer, instead of a mouse. This is a ball which is half inserted and by moving fingers on the ball, the pointer can be moved. Since the whole device is not moved, a track ball comes in various shapes like a ball, a button, or a square. Scanner – A scanner is an input device, which works like a photocopy machine. It is used when some information is available on paper and it is to be transferred to the hard disk of the computer for further manipulation. The scanner captures images from the source then converted into a digital form that can be stored on the disk. These images can be edited before they are printed. Any six output devices are: Monitor – Monitors are also called Visual Display Unit (VDU) which are the main softcopy output devices of a computer system. It forms images from tiny dots, called pixels that are arranged in a rectangular form. The sharpness of the image depends upon the number of pixels. There are two types of viewing screen used for monitors they are Cathode – Ray Tube (CRT) and Flat – Panel Display. Printer – It is a popular hardcopy output device used to display the results on paper. There are various types of printers that differ in terms of the way the image is created and the types of paper and ink used by it. The quality of printer is measured in DPI (Dots Per Inch). The more dots per inch, the better will be the printing quality. However, the printing speed is measured in CPS (Characters Per Second) or in PPM(Printed per Minute). Speaker – Speakers are the most common audio output devices used with computer systems. The purpose of speakers is to produce audio output that can be listened to by the listener. The speakers receive audio input from a device such as a computer or an audio receiver. This input may be either in analog or digital form. Analog speakers amplify the analog electromagnetic waves into sound waves. Plotter – A plotter is a printer designed for printing graphics and large scale images. Plotters are used for printing architectural blueprints, engineering designs, and other CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawings. There are two main types of plotters they are drum and flatbed plotters. Drum plotters are also called roller plotters. This plotter spin the paper back and forth on a cylindrical drum while the ink pens move left and right. By combining these two directions, lines can be drawn in any direction. Flatbed plotters have a large horizontal surface on which the paper is placed. Projector –A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. Nowadays, projectors are typically used for presentations, watching movies, or as a teaching aid, as they enable an entire roomful of people to see images generated by a single computer. Modern projectors usually connect to the computer via an HDMI (high-definition multimedia) cable or VGA (video graphics array) cable. Headphones – Headphones are small speakers that can be worn in or around your ears. Smaller headphones, often called earbuds or earphones, are placed inside the outer part of your ear canal. Like speakers, headphones contain transducers that convert an audio signal into sound waves.