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Input and Output Devices

Input and output devices allow interaction between humans and computers. Input devices receive data and instructions into a computer system, like keyboards, mice, scanners and webcams. Output devices display or play data from the computer, like monitors, printers and speakers. Common input devices described include keyboards for text entry, mice for navigation, and scanners for digitizing documents. Common output devices include monitors for visual display, printers for hard copies, and speakers for audio playback.

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Input and Output Devices

Input and output devices allow interaction between humans and computers. Input devices receive data and instructions into a computer system, like keyboards, mice, scanners and webcams. Output devices display or play data from the computer, like monitors, printers and speakers. Common input devices described include keyboards for text entry, mice for navigation, and scanners for digitizing documents. Common output devices include monitors for visual display, printers for hard copies, and speakers for audio playback.

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WHAT ARE INPUT/OUTPUT
DEVICES
• An input/output device, often known as an IO device, is
any hardware that allows a human operator or other
systems to interface with a computer. Input/output
devices, as the name implies, are capable of delivering
data (output) to and receiving data from a computer
(input).
An input/output (I/O) device is a piece of hardware that
can take, output, or process data. It receives data as input
and provides it to a computer, as well as sends computer
data to storage media as a storage output.
Input devices
Keyboard
The keyboard is the most frequent and widely used input device for entering data into a
computer. Although there are some additional keys for performing other operations, the keyboard
layout is similar to that of a typical typewriter.
Generally, keyboards come in two sizes: 84 keys or 101/102 keys, but currently keyboards with
104 keys or 108 keys are also available for Windows and the Internet.
Mouse
The most common pointing device is the mouse. The mouse is used to move a little cursor across
the screen while clicking and dragging. The cursor will stop if you let go of the mouse. The
computer is dependent on you to move the mouse; it won’t move by itself. As a result, it’s an input
device.
A mouse is an input device that lets you move the mouse on a flat surface to control the
coordinates and movement of the on-screen cursor/pointer.
The left mouse button can be used to select or move items, while the right mouse button when
clicked displays extra menus.
Joystick

A joystick is a pointing device that is used to move the cursor on a computer screen. A spherical ball is
attached to both the bottom and top ends of the stick. In a socket, the lower spherical ball slides. You
can move the joystick in all four directions.
Light Pen

A light pen is a type of pointing device that looks like a pen. It can be used to select a menu item or to draw on the
monitor screen. A photocell and an optical system are enclosed in a tiny tube.
When the tip of a light pen is moved across a monitor screen while the pen button is pushed, the photocell sensor
element identifies the screen location and provides a signal to the CPU.
Scanner

A scanner is an input device that functions similarly to a photocopier. It’s employed when there’s
information on paper that needs to be transferred to the computer’s hard disc for subsequent manipulation.
Scanner collects images from the source and converts them to a digital format that may be saved on a disc.
Before they are printed, these images can be modified.
Web Camera

Because it records a video image of the scene in front of it, a webcam is an input device. It is either built
inside the computer (for example, a laptop) or attached through a USB connection.
A webcam is a computer-connected tiny digital video camera. It’s also known as a web camera because it
can take images and record video. These cameras come with software that must be installed on the
computer in order to broadcast video in real-time over the Internet. It can shoot images and HD videos,
however, the video quality isn’t as good as other cameras (In Mobiles or other devices or normal cameras).
Output Devices
Monitor
Monitors, also known as Visual Display Units (VDUs), are a computer’s primary output device. It creates images
by arranging small dots, known as pixels, in a rectangular pattern. The amount of pixels determines the image’s
sharpness.
The two kinds of viewing screen used for monitors are:
(1) Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT): Pixels are minuscule visual elements that make up a CRT display. The higher the
image quality or resolution, the smaller the pixels.
(2) Flat-Panel Display Cathode-Ray Tube Monitor: In comparison to the CRT, a flat-panel display is a type of
video display with less volume, weight, and power consumption. They can be hung on the wall or worn on the
wrist.
Flat-panel displays are currently used in calculators, video games, monitors, laptop computers, and graphical
displays.
Printer

Printers are output devices that allow you to print


information on paper.
Speakers

The most common output devices, speakers accept sound data from a computer and play the sounds for
users to hear. Although speakers can be used with any type of sound system, some speakers are
manufactured only for computers. It is a device that cannot receive sound generated by users as well as
refer that sound to another device. The main objective of the speakers is to produce sound or audio output
for the listener.
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