Computer Knowledge – Main Parts of Computer

Hardware

  • Computer hardware is what you can physically touch includes the computer case, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
  • It also includes all the parts inside the computer case, such as the hard disk drive, motherboard, video card, and many others.

Input Devices

  • In computing, an input device is a peripheral (piece of computer hardware equipment) used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system.
  • It will control devices such as a computer or information appliance.

Examples: keyboards, mice, scanners, digital cameras and joysticks.

Keyboard

  • A Keyboard is the most fundamental input device for any computer system.
  • It helps to enter data on the computer.

Mouse

  • A mouse is used to input data by sending a signal to the computer, based on hovering the cursor and selecting with the left mouse button.
  • The left mouse acts as an ‘enter’ button. The right mouse button can be selected and will often pop up a window of choices.
  • The scrolling wheel is used to move the view of the screen up or down.
  • By moving your mouse to a location in a document, on a digital photo or over a choice of music, you can click the left mouse button to place the cursor.

Trackballs

  • A trackball is an input device used to enter motion data into computers or other electronic devices.
  • It serves the same purpose as a mouse but is designed with a moveable ball on the top, which can be rolled in any direction.
  • Instead of moving the whole device, you simply roll the moveable ball on top of the trackball unit with your hand to generate motion input.

Basic Knowledge of Computer – Main Parts of Computer

Barcode reader 

  • A barcode reader (or barcode scanner) is an electronic device that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer.
  • Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor translating optical impulses into electrical ones.

Digital camera 

  • A camera which produces digital images that can be stored in a computer and displayed on the screen.

Gamepad 

  • The gamepad is a handheld controller for video games.

Joystick

  • The joystick is a lever that can be moved in several directions to control the movement of an image on a computer or similar display screen. It mainly used in playing games.

Microphone

  • Micro Phone is an instrument for converting sound waves into electrical energy variations which may then be amplified, transmitted, or recorded.

Scanner

  • The scanner is a device that scans documents and converts them into digital data.

Webcam

  • A webcam is a video camera connected to a computer, allowing its images to be seen by Internet users.

Optical character recognition (OCR)

  • Optical character recognition is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.

Digitizer

  • It converts analogue information into digital form.

Optical Mark Reading (OMR)

  • Optical Mark Readers reads pencil or pen marks made in pre-defined positions on paper forms as responses to questions or tick list prompts.

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Input Devices – Computer Knowledge

An input device feeds data to the computer system for processing.

We are going to discuss the most commonly used input devices in this article.

Keyboard

  • The computer keyboard is to enter text information into the computer.
  • The main use of the keyboard is to type commands directing the computer to perform certain actions.

Mouse

  • A device that controls the movement of the cursor or pointer on a display screen.
  • A mouse is a small object you can roll along a hard, flat surface.
  • The invention of the mouse is made by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center in 1963.

Joystick

  • Joysticks and similar game controllers can also be connected to a computer as pointing devices

Scanner

  • A scanner is a device that images a printed page or graphics by digitizing it, producing an image made of tiny pixels of different brightness and colour values which are represented numerically and sent to the computer.
  • Scanners not only scan graphics, but they can also scan pages of text.

MIDI Devices

  • MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a system design to transmit information between electronic musical instruments.

Trackball

  • The trackball is sort of like an upside-down mouse, with the ball located on top.
  • You use your fingers to roll the trackball, and internal rollers (similar to what’s inside a mouse) sense the motion which is transmitted to the computer.
  • Trackballs have the advantage over mice in that the body of the trackball remains stationary on your desk.

Graphics Tablet

  • A graphics tablet consists of an electronic writing area and a special “pen” that works with it.
  • A graphics tablet allows creating graphical images with motions and actions.

Computer Knowledge – Output Devices

Monitor

  1. Monitors, commonly called as Visual Display Unit (VDU), are the main output device of a computer.
  2. It forms images from tiny dots, known as pixels that make an arrangement in a form of a rectangular form.
  3. The sharpness of the image depends upon the number of pixels.

Printers

The printer is an output device, which is to print information on paper.

There are two types of printers:

  1. Impact Printers
  2. Non-Impact Printers

Plotters

  1. A plotter is a printer that interprets commands from a computer to make line drawings on paper with one or more automated pens.
  2. Unlike a regular printer, the plotter can draw continuous point-to-point lines directly from vector graphics files or commands.

Projector

  • A projector or image projector is an optical device, which projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen.

Speakers

  1. Speakers are one of the most common output devices with computer systems.
  2. Some speakers are designed for work specifically with computers, while others can be hooked up to any type of sound system.

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