Devices in

Your Computer
 Devices in Your Computer
Device is a physical hardware or equipment used to provide one or more
functions in a computer system. This device serves as input to the computer, the data accepted will
be processed and recorded to the memory of the system and shown to the users of this computer
system in an output that is on screen or hard copy of the works. There are three (3) devices that
performs as a system in a computer, the input devices, the output devices, and the memory storage
devices, all of them work together to show a meaningful activity in the system.

The device can be inside the casing and connected to the motherboard of the
computer, or it can be separately connected outside of the main system.
Enter
The Input
Devices
The input device served as interactive data input to the computer, it is
the basic interface giving the information to the system, such as when
you are typing on the keyboard you are actually inputting data or
information to the system, likewise when you move or scroll the
mouse then point and click to a certain icon you are doing an activity
in that system thus opening a program, editing some items you are
doing, and so on.
 Keyboard
is considered the most common
input device used for interacting
between the users and the computer.
Keyboard is designed as a
QWERTY layout composed of
alphabetic keys, symbols, function
keys, and numbers that are fed as
data to the computer system.
Mouse Touchpad
Mouse OpticalM Wireless
ouse Mouse
is a point and click input device that moves is a trackpad specially designed as
around a mouse pad. Old
mouse design has a roller ball below the
substitute in
mouse such that when it is moved around to a the work of a mouse.
certain direction will simultaneously shown Touchpad is commonly available in
on the monitor screen. Later design of the laptop computers such that the
mouse from the mechanical mouse we have
now the optical mouse with light of varying user’s finger
designs, and a wireless mouse which no wire navigating around the pad serve as
is shown and connected to the computer but a movement point
through its wireless mechanism. All of these for the operation of it as
mouse
perform the same function as input device in input device.
our computer system.
 Webcam
is performing like a digital camera
and usually wired connectivity with
the
computer for capturing photos and
videos; such photos and videos can
be saved or recorded to the
computer memory. This device is
useful in facilitating video chats
and live stream videos.
Touch screen
is a touch-sensitive monitor screen
that interacts to the touch of the
fingers across the screen. Latest
technology utilizes this device for
laptop
computers, palmtops, tablets and
smartphones such that a simple
touch on the
screen activates the
interface between the user
and its system.
Joystick
is a handle which pivots the
characters in a gaming
console controlling
the video characters on its
movement on the screen, common
to game enthusiast
this device is intended as input
device.
 Microphone
is a voice or sound capturing device
that sends information to the
computer and converted to a digital
sound format. The digitized sound
can
recorded or save, edited, playback,
uploaded to email and many more.
Digital camera
is a photograph capturing device or
video device in which the captured
images or videos is transferred
through a wire connected from the
device
to the computer, or through the
memory card of the device and
placed in the specific slots of the
memory card in a computer.
Scanner
Printer with its
scanner device
is a desktop optical image transfer
from such input device to the
computer system, the image/s can
be viewed to the monitor screen for
processing, editing, saving, email
attachment and / or printing.
Enter
The Output
Devices
The output device is a hardware unit connected to the computer that
receives data and convert the data into a form where it is designed,
such form may include visual,
audio, text or hard printed copy of the document. Generally, output
device is categorized into four: visual, sound, data and print, all of
them has important meaning
and purpose in the computer system.
 Monitor
CRT LCD / LED
a screen device which displays the
information from the computer to this
device. Monitors were developed similarly
with the technology of the TV, early
computer monitors were designed with
cathode ray tube (CRT) display or the use of
vacuum tube to show the information
generated by the computer. Further
development resulted in the use of liquid
crystal display (LCD) and latest
technology utilizes light emitting diode
(LED) display of computer data.
Speaker
Stereo with subwoofer
is a hardware device that converts
the signal of the computer’s sound
card into an audio.
Computer design lately contains
internal sound and external sound
and the newest design uses
Bluetooth technology or wireless
design.
Headphone
is an output audio device designed
for single listener. The design varies
is sizes and shapes but most of all it
is designed as audio device without
disruption to the
other people in the vicinity.
 Video card Projector
is a video output device that
projects images and videos from the
is an expansion card slot in computer to a wall or screen. The
the computer’s motherboard used to projected images is more than 5
process images and video and times bigger
capable of generating these visuals than the usual monitor screen
when an external video device is suitable for classroom use and
connected to it such as the monitor conferences.
screen.
Printer
is a hard copy creating device,
information from the computer that
is sent to the printer utilizes
electronic data system converting
the information into a printed
output. Printer comes in different
types such as dot matrix, inkjet,
laser,
and the latest technology
connection system uses USB cable
connected printer
and wireless (WiFi) system.
Enter
The Memory
Storage Devices
 The memory storage device is the hardware
of a computer that stores the processed data of files
or folders in the computer. The types of memory
storage devices include: hard disk drive (HDD), flash
disk or thumb drive,
CD or DVD and memory card.
 Hard disk drive
inside the HDD
is a magnetic storage device located inside the
casing of the computer. It is the main storage
device containing the operating system, device
softwares and application softwares. Hard disk
storage can be 80 Gigabyte (80GB), 500GB or 1
Terabyte (1TB) capacity.
Flash disk
is a small rectangular data storage device that is
plugged into the universal serial bus (USB) port
on the computer used for data transfer of files
from one computer
to another. Capacity of the flash disk or thumb
drive varies such as 2 Gigabyte (2GB), 4GB,
8GB, 16GB, 32Gb and 64GB storage capacity.
 Compact Disc / DVD Disc Memory card

Compact Disc (CD) is an optical memory storage device and the

data is viewed by a compact disc read-only-memory (CD-ROM)
of the computer. The compact disc
rewriteable or CDR is used to load the data into this memory
device using Rewriteable Compact Disc Drive (CDRW) unit. The is an electronic data storage cartridge device used
standard capacity of a compact disc is 700 Megabyte (700MB).
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is an optical memory storage device for storing digital
for digital data of 4.7 Gigabyte (4.7GB), a larger storage capacity information from the computer. The storage
than the CD. The information in the capacity is 4 Gigabyte (4GB)
DVD is read by the DVD ROM drive. The DVDRW is a
rewritable DVD in which the data is loaded or copied using the up to 128GB.
DVDRW drive.
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