Computer Components

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Computer Components 11

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Hardware

• Hardware: the physical parts of a computer that you can touch or see

• Includes both external and internal parts

• broken up into two groups, input and output

Input• Input devices allow you to put new

information into the computer

keyboardMouse scanner

Output• Output devices allow the computer to

communicate with you

Printer

Monitor

Speakers

Headphones

Input and Output

floppy disk

Flash drive(USB- universal serial bus)

CD/ DVD

camera Smart phones

Mp3 players

Neither Input nor Output• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• The main brain of the computer• Does all the storing and processing• Located INSIDE the tower or body of

computer

What are the components of a

computer?

1. Monitor2. Keyboard3. Mouse4. CPU (Central Processing Unit)5. CD/ DVD drive6. USP (universal Serial Port)

7. Printera. Dot Matrixb. Ink Jetc. Laser

Software• Software- Components inside

the computer that allow it to run and compute