Out Put & Input

Device s

INPUT DEVICES
The input unit is formed by the input devices
attached to the computer. Ex - Keyboard, Microphone
etc. An input unit takes the input & converts it into
binary form so that it can be understood by the
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computer.
There are various input devices when dealing with your
computer. The most important two devices are the keyboard
and mouse. These allow you to direct the computer on what
to do.

KEYBOARD

KEYBOARD
This is most commonly
used device which acts as
input device. Its structure
is like typewriter. It
contains no. of keys which
have some specific ASCII
values. Like A has ASCII
value 65. When this is
pressed , it is converted
into 65 & this 65 is sent to
CPU in the form of Binary
language (i.e. 1000001).
Then operations are done
on this data.

MOUSE
MOUSE
This is a pointing device which contains a roller in its base. When
the mouse is moved on any surface, the pointer on the screen is
also moved. It contains a potentiometer coupled with the roller.
This potentiometer senses the motion of mouse & convert it into
digital value. A mouse may contain two or three buttons.
Now a day's optical mouse are very popular.

BAR CODE READER

BAR CODE READER
It is a device which is used to read the code from the products which
are usually in the form of Bars. It contains a light sensitive detector
which identifies the values of the bars on the product & converts
them into numeric code.
These Bar readers are used in Shopping malls in a very large scale.

DIGITAL CAMERA
DIGITAL CAMERA
As the name specifies, these camera stores the data digitally,
which then can be stored in the computer & can be stored for a
long time. But it has very limited storage capacity. These are very
popular because of less expensive photographs & Speed

LIGHT PEN
LIGHT PEN
It is a pointing device which contains a photocell mounted at its
tip. It senses the light from the screen when it becomes closer
to the screen, & generates a pulse. So for identifying a
particular location on the screen these light pens are very
useful. But this is not in very much use these days

SCANNER
SCANNER
The scanner is an input device like the photocopier machine which
makes the electronic copy of the picture or document which can be
further edited

MICROPHONES
MIC's or MICROPHONES
The scanner is an input device like the photocopier machine
which makes the electronic copy of the picture or document
which can be further edited

Magnetic Ink Card Reader (MICR)

MICR input device is generally used in banks

because of a large number of cheques to be
processed everyday. The bank's code
number and cheque number are printed on
the cheques with a special type of ink that
contains particles of magnetic material that
are machine readable.
This reading process is called Magnetic Ink
Character Recognition (MICR). The main
advantage of MICR is that it is fast and less
error prone.

Output devices

Anything that comes out of a computer. Output can

be meaningful information or gibberish, and it can
appear in a variety of forms -- as binary numbers, as
characters, as pictures, and as printed pages.
Output devices
include
display screens,
loudspeakers, and printers.
(v.) To give out. For example, display screens output
images, printers output print, and loudspeakers
output sounds

Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) Monitor

In the CRT, display is made up of small

picture elements called pixels for short. The
smaller the pixels, the better the image
clarity or resolution. It takes more than one
illuminated pixel to form whole character,
such as the letter 'e' in the word help.
A finite number of characters can be
displayed on a screen at once. The screen
can be divided into a series of character
boxes - fixed location on the screen where a
standard character can be placed.
Most screens are capable of displaying 80
characters of data horizontally and 25 lines
vertically. There are some disadvantages of
CRT:
Large in Size
High power consumption

Flat-Panel Display Monitor

The flat-panel display refers to a class of video

devices that have reduced volume, weight and
power requirement compared to the CRT. You
can hang them on walls or wear them on your
wrists. Current uses for flat-panel displays
include calculators, video games, monitors,
laptop computer, graphics display.
The flat-panel display are divided into two
categories:
Emissive Displays - The emissive displays
are devices that convert electrical energy into
light. Example are plasma panel and LED
(Light-Emitting Diodes).
Non-Emissive Displays - The Non-emissive
displays use optical effects to convert sunlight
or light from some other source into graphics
patterns. Example is LCD (Liquid-Crystal
Device)

Printer
In computers, a printer is a
device that accepts text
and graphic output from a
computer and transfers the
information
to
paper,
usually to standard size
sheets of paper. Printers
are sometimes sold with
computers,
but
more
frequently are purchased
separately. Printers vary in
size, speed, sophistication,
and cost. In general, more
expensive
printers
are