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COMPUTER
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
COMP 100: Computer Fundamentals

PAUL JOSEPH C. LAVAREZ, MBA, MIT

College of Information Systems
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Hardware
- represents the physical
and tangible components
of a computer, i.e. the
components that can be
seen and touched.

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Types of Computer
Hardware

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• These components are mostly to be used for recognized the input data that are given

Input Devices by users for solving their problems.

• Input instructions can be different types such as text, images, audio, and video.

• Processing is most important function of computer, because in this phase has been

Process Devices done transformation to data into useful information using with many processing
components of computer.

• Output devices received the processed information form processing components,

Output Devices and finally produce them into various form such text, audio, and video. These output
devices might be connected with computer via wireless or wired.

Memory/Storage • Using storage devices, all data files and objects can be sorted, porting, and
extracting. The information can be stored in temporarily and permanently. These

Devices
devices are may be internal or external.

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Types of Input Devices

Input Type Examples
Pointing Device Mouse, touchpad, touchscreen, multi-touch screen, pen input, motion
sensor, graphics tablet, interactive smartboard, and fingerprint
scanner.
Game Controller Joystick, gamepad, and steering wheel.
Audio Input Device Microphone and midi keyboard.
Wire/Wireless Peripheral Keyboard, mouse, headset, gamepad, printer.
Visual and Imaging Device Webcam, digital camera, digital camcorder, TV capture card, biometric
scanner, and barcode reader.
Network Device Ethernet hardware

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Examples of Processing Devices

Soundcard
Microprocessors

Motherboard
Videocard
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Examples of Output Devices

Projector

Monitor
Printer
Speaker
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Types of Memory/Storage Devices

Primary Storage Secondary Storage
used for the permanently storage of data,
are designed for temporarily storage, but fastest
because if further time require any data then can
to storage devices and small size as well.
be retrieved easily.

USB
DVD Hard Drive
RAM
ROM
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Software
- is a set of programs, which
is designed to perform a
well-defined function. A
program is a sequence of
instructions written to solve
a particular problem.
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Types of Software

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- is a set of programs, which is

designed to perform a well-defined
function. A program is a sequence of
instructions written to solve a
particular problem.

Example: Operating System

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-are designed to satisfy a

particular need of a
particular environment.

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