Input/Output Easy Notes

Input

In computing the general meaning of input is to provide or giving something to the computer.in other words the state/act of a computer.

          Component of a computer is being accepting something from the device, from the user is also often called input.

          We categorize input devices because we use them as an input to enter something into the computer. Some of them are given below:

   ·       Mouse

   ·       Keyboard

   ·       touchscreen

   ·       microphone

   ·       webcam etc

we may also called the internal parts of the computer as an input device because we use them to do some work. Such as power-on button because it is an input for the processor or the power supply.

Output

Any information or data that has been processed by the computer or come out from the computer system is known as output.

A simple example of output is anything you view on your monitor, listen from the speakers, headphone etc are outputs.

Basically An output device is a piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate with the computer.

A Computer use many output devices some of them are given below:

    ·       Printers

    ·       Speakers

    ·       Plotters

    ·       Monitors

These are used as an output devices or used to receive output from the computer system.     

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