DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH

Name : K.S.Sandhya Vani

Designation : Lecturer
Branch : DCCP
Institution : SRRS GPT, SIRCILLA, KNR(Dist)
Year/ semester : I - Year
Subject : Computer Fundamentals
Subject Code : CCP-105
Topic : Various Types of Input/Output
Devices
Duration : 50 Mts
Sub topic : Electronic Keyboard
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Teaching aids : PPT, Animations & Images

 Objectives:

On completion of this period, you would

be able to :
 Know the functions of Keyboard

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Recap
Sl. NAME Memory Micro- No. Of Operating Environ Speed
No. Capacity proces Disk system ment (MHz)
sor drives
1 PC 640kb 8088 Two floppy MS-DOS Single 8-10
(8bit) disk drives User
(FDD)
2 PC-XT 640kb 8088 1 FDD MS-DOS Single 10-13
(8bit) 1 Hard Disk User

3 PC-AT 1 to 2 MB 80286 1 Or 2FDD MS-DOS Multi 15-20

(286) (16 bit) 1 Hard Disk UNIX User
XENIX
4 PCAT 2 MB and 80386 1 or 2 FDD MS-DOS Multi 25-40
(386) + (32 bit) 1 Hard Disk UNIX User
XENIX

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 Recap

5 PC- 8 to 16 80486 1 or 2 FDD MS-DOS Multi 50-66

AT(486) MB 1 Hard UNIX User
Disk WINDOW
1 CD disk S

6 PC- 16 to 32 80586 1 or 2 FDD MS-DOS Multi 96-200

Pentium MB (64 bit) 1 Hard UNIX User
Disk WINDOW
1 CD disk S

7 Pentium 32 to pentium 1 or 2 FDD MS-DOS Multi 233,266,

-II 128 MB 1 CD disk UNIX User 300
WINDOW
S

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LIST OF INPUT DEVICES
 Optical Mark Reader  Keyboard
(OMR)  Mouse
 Optical Character Reader  Scanner
(OCR)
 Digitizer
 Punched hole devices
 tablet
 (a) Punched cards
 Touch Screen
 (b) Paper tapes
 Light Pen
 Bar-Code Readers
 Magnetic –Ink Character
Recognition (MICR)

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The Keyboard

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A text based input device that is used to type in letters,
numbers and other characters.
Keyboard Ports :- This is connected to the CPU.

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Keyboards are available in three styles:

 Standard keyboard with 83 – 84 keys

 Enhanced keyboard with 101 keys or more

 Windows keyboard with 104 keys

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Numeric keys
 These are the keys on the second row of the keyboard
having digits from 0 to 9 and are used for entering
numbers

 Some keys of the numeric key pad on the right hand

side of the keyboard have double functions

 For example: the key marked 9, also has PgUp written

on it

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 Alphabetic Keys

 These are represented by 3rd, 4th and 5th rows having

alphabets from A to Z

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Function Keys
 These are identified as F1 through F12 on the topmost row
of the keyboard
 The function of these keys is software dependent i.e. they
acquire different functions depending on the software
package which is being used at the times
 For instance, you use F3 to repeat the last DOS command
you typed
 These are also called soft keys as functions can be
changed

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Cursor Control Keys ( Arrow Keys)

 These are the four arrow on the right hand

side of the keyboard
 They move the cursor on the monitor in the
desired direction (left, right, up or down)

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Cursor Control Keys ( Arrow Keys)

There are four other Control keys labeled as

 End
 Home
 Pg Up
 and Pg Dn

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Cursor Control Keys
 Pg Up (Page Up) key:- is used to move the cursor to the
pervious screen or page of the document

 Pg Dn (Page Down) key is used to move the cursor to the

next screen or page

 Home key is used to bring the cursor to the beginning of the

line or to the top of the document

 End key is used to position the cursor at the end of the line
or document

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Caps Lock Key:-
 When Caps Lock in ON, any letter you type will appear
in uppercase. When Caps Lock is pressed again, the
letter is shown in the lower-case

Scroll Lock:-
 It stops screen contents (output) rolling on an MF
(multi-functional) keyboard, it has no function under
MS-DOS

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 The shift keys
 These Three keys- are known as shift keys

 Ctrl,
 Shift,
 Alt

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 The shift keys

 These keys in combination with other keys can be

allotted different functions by different software

 For example: MSWORD allotted ‘copy’ function to

“CTRL+c”

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 Shift key

 Normally, when an alphabet is typed, it is shown in the

lower case

 Holding down Shift key and then pressing an alphabet key

causes it to appear in uppercase (capital)

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 Enter/Return
 The Enter key is used for two main purposes

 Alerts COMPUTER to execute the given

instruction

 when using a word processor, pressing Enter key

begins a new paragraph or a new line

 Enter key is also referred to as Return key

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Pause :-
 Typing DIR and then pressing Enter key, displays all the
files stored in the diskette
 If you are not in a position to read all the files, press Pause
key

Tab

 It is used to make the cursor jump across the screen

form one set ‘tab-stop’ to another, from column to
column
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 ESC KEY
 In most applications, you can use this key to
cancel a command you have just entered or in some
cases it invokes a menu of option.

Print Screen :-

 If this key is pressed, the displayed screen gets printed

on the printer

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Delete KEY

 Normally this key is alloted the function of deletion of a

text or a file

Backspace:-

 Pressing Backspace ( ) key erases any

character to the left of the cursor

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Insert
 It allows insertion of characters to the left of the cursor.
This is a toggle key. Pressing once brings the insert
mode “ON” and pressing again will toggle it “OFF”

Spacebar:-

 Pressing Spacebar key prints one blank space at a

time. It can be allotted any function by software

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SUMMARY

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 Keyboard Keys

 Special Keys
 Movement Keys (Arrow
Keys)  Print Screen,
 Letter Keys  Scroll Lock,
 Text editing keys :-  Esc, pause,
 Backspace, Del, Ins  Caps Lock,
 Enter / Return (Control  Num Lock,
key)  Home/End
 Alt (Alternate Key)
 Page Up
 Shift
 Tab
 Page Down
 Function keys:-
 (F1-F12)
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 Function Keys
KEYBOARD LAYOUT
ESC

Caps Lock Backspace

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Quiz:

1.Soft keys are also called_____________

Function keys

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2.There are ______types of Electronic Keyboards

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Frequently Asked Questions

 How many function keys are there in the keyboard?

 Write and explain the text editing keys and special keys
in the keyboard?

 What are soft keys

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