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The document describes input, output, and storage devices. It defines each type of device and provides examples. Input devices like keyboards and mice are used to enter data. Output devices like monitors and printers provide output. Storage devices like hard drives and flash drives are used to store processed data.

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Assignment 2

The document describes input, output, and storage devices. It defines each type of device and provides examples. Input devices like keyboards and mice are used to enter data. Output devices like monitors and printers provide output. Storage devices like hard drives and flash drives are used to store processed data.

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ASSIGNMENT 2

Describe Input, Output And Storage Devices. Explain With Suitable


Example?

Input, Output and Storage Devices are commonly known as peripheral devices. A peripheral is a
“device which is used to put or enter information into or take or get information out of the
computer.” Peripherals are classified into three groups.

Input devices which are used to interact with, or send data to the computer (g. mouse, keyboards,
etc.)

Output devices which provides result or output to the user from the computer (g. monitors, printers,
etc.)

Storage devices that stores data processed by the computer (g. hard drives, flash drives, etc.)

Input Devices Output Devices Storage Devices

Keyboard
Computer mouse
Graphic tablet Floppy disk drive
Touchscreen Flash drive
Computer display
Barcode reader Disk drive
Printer
Image scanner Smartphone or Tablet
Projector
Microphone computer storage
Speaker
Webcam interface
Game controller CD/DVD drive
Light pen
Scanner
Digital camera

Input Devices
An input device is a piece of computer hardware device (peripheral) used to provide data and
control signals to an information processing system like a computer device or other information
appliance. Examples of input devices are keyboards, mice, scanners, joysticks,digital cameras etc.
Several input devices can be classified according to :

modality of input (e.g. audio, visual, mechanical motion,etc.)

Discrete input (e.g. key presses) or continuous input (e.g. a mouse’s position, though digitized into a
discrete quantity, is fast enough to be taken as continuous)

Pointing devices, which are input devices used to define the position in space, which can further be
classified based on

Whether the input is direct or indirect. With direct input, the input space concurs with the display
space, i.e. pointing is done in the space where visible feedback or the pointer appears. Touchscreens
and light pens involve direct input. E.g. involving indirect input are the mouse and the
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Whether the positional information is implicit(e.g. on a touch screen) or proportional (e.g. with a
computer mouse that can be lifted and positioned again)

Direct input is almost necessarily implicit, but indirect input may be either implicit or relative. For
e.g, digitizing graphics tablets that do not have an embedded screen have indirect input and sense
absolute positions and are frequently run in an absolute input mode, but they may also be
established to simulate a relative input mode like that of a touch pad, where the puck or stylus can
be lifted and repositioned. Input and output devices make up the hardware interface between a
computer and scanner.

Output Devices
An output device is any piece of computer hardware device which helps us to communicate the
results of processed data generated by an information processing system (like a computer) which
converts the electronic data into human-readable form.

There are several outputs produced by a computer system. These include on-screen data, printed
documents, and sound. An output device helps in the transmission of data by the computer in a
human understandable form, for e.g., sound generated through a speaker.

Storage Devices
A hardware device that is used to store digital data and applications which may be in the form of
video, audio, images, etc. is known a storage device. It is a main component of a computer. Hard
drive is one of the examples of a storage devices. In computer science, memory devices are used to
store information for use in a computer. The term primary memory is used for storage devices which
function at high-speed (e.g. RAM) as different from secondary memory, which gives program and
data storage that is slow to access but offer higher capacity. If required, primary memory can be
kept in secondary memory, using a memory management technique known as “virtual memory.” A
primitive synonym for memory is store.

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