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.