TOPIC

INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES

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 INPUT DEVICES
KEYBOARD
MOUSE
DIGITAL CAMERA
MICROPHONE
TOUCH SCREEN
OPTICAL MARK READER(OMR)
SCANNER
SMART CARDS
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 KEYBOARD
• Keyboard is the most common input device
used for entering text data directly into a
computer.
• A computer keyboard is similar to that of a
typewriter, but it has additional keys as well.
• The most common available computer keyboard
has 104 keys.

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 MOUSE
 Mouse is another popular input device used
with modern computers.
 It is basically a pointing device used to provide
input in graphic-user interface operating
systems.
 It is a small palm size box, which appears a bit
like a mouse.

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 DIGITAL CAMERA
• Digital cameras are the latest type of cameras,
which records and stores photographic
images.
• Many current models of digital cameras are
also capable to capture sound or video, in
addition to still images.
• The number of photographs that a camera can
shoot depends on the memory capacity of the
camera.

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 MICROPHONE
 Microphone is the commonly used audio
input device in computers. It is used to
amplify or record the sounds using computers.
 These are the devices that transfer sound
inputs to the computer.
 Microphones are becoming very common due
to the trend of chatting and video
conferencing.

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 TOUCH SCREEN
• Touch screen is a special input device, which
only needs a finger touch to supply input to
the system.
• Touch screen are the monitors with a special
pressure sensitive screen that detects the
touch of a finger on a particular point of time.
• Most of the items are coming in market with
touch screen ability.

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 OPTICAL MARK READER

 OMR is a special type of optical scanner, which

reads presence or absence of a mark made with
pen/pencil.
 OMRs are very economical devices and can read
up to 10000 documents per hour.
 OMRs use laser beam scanning technology and
process huge volume of data in a very short span
of time.

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 SCANNER
• Scanner is a very popular input device, which
works more like a photocopy machine.
• They are mainly used to transfer printed or
handmade pictures, photographs and text-
document into computer.
• Every scanner has a variety of specifications,
including resolution, color depth and speed.

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 SMART CARDS
 Smart cards are electronic cards, which are
small in size and are made of some plastic
material with an embedded computer chip
that store and transacts data.
 These cards are read by card reader, which
normally acts as a scanner.
 Banks normally use the smart cards. Each card
is having a unique number, which has some
coded data contained in it.
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 OUTPUT DEVICES
COMPUTER MONITOR
SPEAKERS
PRINTER
PLOTTER

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 COMPUTER MONITOR

A monitor is a softcopy output device that

produces output in the form of a picture on the
screen.
It is just like a television screen usually used to
see programs on a computer.
At present, computer monitors are available in
a variety of shapes, designs and colors.

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 SPEAKERS

 Speakers also produce softcopy output in the

form of sounds.
 Speakers are used to play sound in computers.
They may be built-in or externally connected
to your system.
 Speakers allow user to listen to music and
hear sound effects and spoken text using
computer.
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 PRINTER
Printers are the most important output
devices, which produce hardcopy output on
different type of papers.
Two common wireless technologies for
printing are Bluetooth and Infrared.
In Bluetooth printing, a computer or device
transmits output to a printer via radio waves
and in Infrared printing, a printer
communicates with a device using infrared
light waves.
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 PLOTTER

Plotter is an output device that draws pictures

on a large piece of paper.
Plotters are mainly used to print maps,
layouts, banners, and reports that are very
large in size.
The main advantage of plotter is producing
line drawings with a very high degree or
accuracy.

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THANKS

By VIPUL GUPTA
BBA Sem.1 st

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