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Input Unit

The document describes the main units of a computer system: the input unit which accepts and converts data for processing, the storage unit which holds input data and results, the output unit which provides results to the outside world such as printers and displays, and the control unit which directs the flow of data between all other units.

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Input Unit

The document describes the main units of a computer system: the input unit which accepts and converts data for processing, the storage unit which holds input data and results, the output unit which provides results to the outside world such as printers and displays, and the control unit which directs the flow of data between all other units.

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Input Unit:

All the input devices perform the following functions.

Accept the data and instructions from the outside world. Convert it to a form that the computer can understand. Supply the converted data to the computer system for further processing.
Keyboard is the one of the most commonly used input device. Other commonly used input devices are the mouse, floppy disk drive, magnetic tape, etc. Storage Unit: The storage unit of the computer holds data and instructions that are entered through the input unit, before they are processed. It preserves the intermediate and final results before these are sent to the output devices. It also saves the data for the later use.

Output Unit: The output unit of a computer provides the information and results of a computation to outside world. Printers, Visual Display Unit (VDU) are the commonly used output devices. Other commonly used output devices are floppy disk drive, hard disk drive, and magnetic tape drive.
Control Unit: It controls all other units in the computer. The control unit instructs the input unit, where to store the data after receiving it from the user. It controls the flow of data and instructions from the storage unit to ALU. It also controls the flow of results from the ALU to the storage unit.

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