Hardware is physical equipment of computer system.
Hardware can be divided into two categories: Input Device and Output Device.
Input device is computer device that is used to input data
into computersystem. Input device can be divided into
some categories:
first Text input devices Such as keyboard,
a device to input text and characters by depressing buttons
(referred to as keys), similar to a typewriter.
The most common English-language key layout is the QWERTY
layout.
Below is a picture of a keyboard using QWERTYlayout
second Pointing Device The most common pointing device is mouse.
In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions
by detecting two dimensional motion
relative to its supporting surface.
Physically, a mouse consists of an object
held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons,
other elements, such as "wheels", or extra buttons.
Other alternative of pointing device is trackball,
a pointing device consisting of an exposed protruding ball
housed in a socket that detects rotation about two axes.
The trackball was invented by
Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff
as part of the Royal Canadian Navy‘s DATAR system
in 1952,
eleven years before the mouse was invented.
Below is a picture of a trackball.
3.Gaming devices One example of gaming device is
a joystick.
A joystick is a general control device
that consists of a handheld stick that pivots around
one end,
to detect angles in two or three dimensions.
4 Image, Video input devices
There are two common input devices in this type.
First is Image scanner, a device that provides input by analyzing images,
printed text, handwriting, or an object.
Below is a picture of image scanner.
Second type is a webcam. Webcams are video capturing devices
connected to computers or computer networks, often using USB
or, if they connect to networks, ethernet or Wi-Fi.
They are well-known for their low manufacturing costs and flexible
applications.
Below is a picture of a webcam.
5. Audio input devices One example of audio input device is a microphone.
Microphone sometimes referred to as a mic or mike,
is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor
that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Microphones are used in many applications such as
telephones, tape recorders, hearing aids, motion picture production,
live and recorded audio engineering,
in radio and television broadcasting
and in computers for recording voice, Voice over Internet Protocol,
and for non-acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic checking.
