Computers Are Your Future
Twelfth Edition
Chapter 3: Input/Output and Storage
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Input Devices:
Giving Commands
• Input
o Data or instructions entered into a computer
• Input device
o Hardware that gives users the ability to
enter data and instructions into RAM
o Keyboard
• Most common input data entry
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Input Devices:
Giving Commands
• Special keyboard keys:
o Toggle keys—either on or off
o Function keys—perform specific actions
depending on the program
• F1 - Help
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Input Devices:
Giving Commands
• Pointing
device
o Mouse
• most popular
pointing device
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Input Devices:
Giving Commands
• Mice alternatives
o Trackball
o Pointing stick
o Touchpad (also called a trackpad)
o Click wheel
o Joystick
o Stylus
o Touch screen
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Input Devices:
Giving Commands
• Alternative input devices
o Microphones for speech or voice recognition
o Scanner for optical character recognition (OCR)
o Bar code reader
• UPC – Universal Product Code
o Optical mark reader (OMR)
o Radio frequency identification (RFID reader)
o Magnetic stripe card reader
o Biometric input device
o Digital cameras and digital video cameras
o Webcams
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Output devices
o Users can see, hear, or feel the end
result of processing operations
o Most popular output devices
• Monitors (also called displays)
• Printers
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Monitors
o Display a temporary copy (soft copy) of
processed data
o Measure screen diagonally
o Types of monitors include:
• Cathode-ray tube (CRT)—legacy
technology
• Liquid crystal display (LCD) – flat
panel
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Resolution
o Refers to the sharpness of an image
o Number of pixels (picture elements) controls
the resolution
o Bit-mapped Image – matrix of pixels
o Higher Resolution - clearer
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Printers
o Creates hard copy of output
o Types include:
• Inkjet
• Laser
• Dot-matrix
• Thermal-transfer (sometimes called dye
sublimation printers)
• Photo
• Plotters
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Printers (con’t.)
o Inkjet (nonimpact)—popular with home users
• Provide excellent images—made up of
small dots
• Advantages:
o Inexpensive
o Generate professional color output
• Disadvantages:
o Relatively slow
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Printers (con’t.)
o Laser (nonimpact)
• Use electrostatic reproductive technology
to produce high-quality output
• Advantages:
o High-resolution
o Print faster than inkjet printers
• Disadvantages
o Color laser printers more expensive
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Printers
o Thermal-transfer (dye sublimation
printers)
• Use heat process
• Advantages
o High-quality images from the high-quality thermal-
wax printers
• Disadvantages
o High-quality thermal printers expensive
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Printers (con’t.)
o Photo
• Uses special ink and
paper
• Often are inkjet printers
• Prints directly from a
digital camera or memory
card
o Plotters
• Produce images through
moving ink pens
• Used for making
oversized
Copyright printsInc.(i.e.,
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Output Devices:
Engaging Our Senses
• Other output devices
include:
o Speakers
o LCD projectors
o Multifunction devices
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Storage
o Process of saving software and data
o Also called secondary storage
o Demand has increased for storage
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Storage devices
o Hardware that contains the tools to place
data on the recording media
o Recording media—hold data
• Hard disks
• Floppy disks
• Flash memory
• CDs and DVDs
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Hard disk drive (hard drive)
o Most important storage device
o High-capacity, high-speed device
o Platters – fixed rotating disks
o Read write Head - records information
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
Bad Sectors – damaged
areas
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• CD drives and DVD drives
o Optical storage devices
o Use laser beams to store data through:
• Pits, the indentations, a binary 0
• Lands, the flat reflective areas, a binary 1
• Optical discs
o CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (compact or digital
video disc read-only memory)
o Data can be read, not altered
o Most popular, least expensive
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
Optical Storage
o CD-R (CD-recordable) o DVD+RW (DVD
o CD-RW (CD-rewritable) rewritable; plus)
o DVD+R (DVD o DVD-RW (DVD
recordable; plus) rewritable; dash)
o DVD-R (DVD recordable;
dash)
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
o Optical Storage
• BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read only)
• BD-R (BD recordable)
• BD-RE (BDisc rewritable)
o High Definition video
o Large amounts of data
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Solid-state drive (SSD)
o Storage devices that use solid-state circuitry;
have no moving parts
o Nonvolatile storage
• USB flash drives (memory stick,
thumb drive, jump drive)
o Popular removable storage devices
o Replace legacy technology of floppy disks
o Should be removed only when not actively
in use
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Flash memory
cards
o Solid-state storage device
o Used with MP3 players,
smartphones, digital
cameras
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Storage: Holding Data
for Future Use
• Backup
o Copy of programs, data, and information
created in one secondary storage medium
duplicated to another
o Prevents permanent loss of programs, data,
and information
o Keep on a regular schedule
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