PERIPHERAL DEVICES
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PERIPHERAL DEVICES
WHAT ARE PERIPHERAL
DEVICES?
- (^) A peripheral device is generally defined as any auxiliary device such as a computer mouse or keyboard, that connects to and works with the computer in some way.
- (^) These devices are used to enter information and instructions into a computer for storage or processing and to deliver the processed data to a human operator or, in some cases, a machine controlled by the computer.
- (^) Peripheral devices are part of the computers hardware.
List of examples of different peripheral devices Input devices:
- (^) Keyboard
- (^) Mouse
- (^) Joystick
- (^) Scanner
- (^) Touchscreen
- (^) Touchpad
- (^) Webcam
- (^) microphone Output devices:
- (^) Monitors
- (^) Printer
- (^) Projector
- (^) Speaker
- (^) Head phones Storage devices :
- (^) Hard drive
- (^) Solid state drive
- (^) Flash dive
- (^) Floppy disk
- (^) CD
- (^) Micro SD card
What devices are not peripheral devices? Computer devices that cannot process without the help of a computer are not peripheral devices. This list includes:
- (^) Power supply unit
- (^) Motherboard
- (^) Central processing unit(C.P.U/microprocessor)
- (^) Computer case
- (^) Random access memory (R.A.M)