Input devices on a computer include: keyboard, mouse, microphone, digital cameras, digital camcorders, scanners, touch sensitive screens, and graphic digitisers. (Graphic digitisers convert analogue images into digital images.)

OUTPUT

Output devices on a computer include: speakers, printers (inkjet, dot matrix, laserjet etc), monitor (visual display unit), graph plotter (draws very large drawings, like ocean liner plans that are one quarter actual size; ideal for images larger than A3/A2/A1 etc).

STORAGE DEVICES

There are now many possible ways to store data on a computer; whether directly onto a computer, or onto a disk.

Hard Drive: This is the computers internal storage device. As technology has progressed, the size of the hard drive has increased. The average hard drive size nowadays is 80Gb, the largest is a double 80Gb.

Floppy Disk: Floppy Disks were, up until a very short time a go, the most popular storage device...