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Seminar
On
PARTS OF A COMPUTER

Submitted By:
Odisha Electronic Control Library
CONTENT

 Introduction Software and Hardware

 What is Software?
 Types of Software
 What is Computer Hardware?
 Components of Computer
 Computer Input Devices
 Computer Output Devices
 The Central Processing Unit
 Motherboard
 Computer Memory, Floppy Drive, DVD Drives
 Reference
INTRODUCTION
 Elements of a computer system fall into two
categories and they are:
 Hardware and

 Software

 Hardware: Hardware is the equipment to perform

the necessary computations and includes the
central processing unit i.e. CPU, keyboard, monitor,
mouse, printer, and speaker.
 Software: Software consists of the programs that
enable us to solve problems with a computer by
providing it with lists of instructions to perform.
WHAT IS SOFTWARE
 “A set of instructions given to the computer to solve
a problem is called Software.”
 “Software is a single/collection of programs that
performs a particular task.”
 Software is also called Program.

 Different software's are used to solve different

problems.
TYPES OF SOFTWARE
 System software
 Application software

 System software: It is an operating system, which

is an interface between user and hardware. This is
divided into two types:
 CUI - Command line user interface

 GUI – Graphical user interface

 Application software: The application software is

divided into two types and they are:
 Packages and

 Programming languages
WHAT IS COMPUTER HARDWARE?

 Computer Hardware is the

physical part of the
computer system, the
machinery and equipment.
COMPONENTS OF COMPUTER
COMPUTER INPUT DEVICES

 Computer Devices that

input information in the
computer

Examples
 Key Board
 Mouse

 Scanner

 Digital Camera
COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES

 Computer Devices that

output information from the
computer.

Examples
 Monitor
 Printer
THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

• CPU (Central Processing Unit) also called the

Microprocessor or “The Brain” of the
Computer.
• Processor speed: The speed at which a
microprocessor executes instructions. This is
usually measured in megahertz (MHz).
• Brands of Processors include:
Pentium

Celeron

MAC
AMD
Cyrix
PARTS OF CPU
MOTHERBOARD

 Main circuit board inside

your computer is called a
motherboard.
 The motherboard contains
the connectors for
attaching additional
boards, such as the CPU,
BIOS, memory, mass
storage interfaces, serial
and parallel ports,
expansion slots and all the
controllers that are
required to control
standard peripheral
devices such as the
display screen, keyboard,
and hard drive.
MOTHERBOARD

 Here we see a diagram

and a photo of a
motherboard (or main
circuit board).
This one is suitable for a
Pentium CPU
COMPUTER MEMORY: (RAM)

 Before your CPU can process any instructions you

give it, those instructions must be stored
somewhere, in preparation for access by the
microprocessor
 The more memory that is available in a machine,
the more instructions and data that can be stored
at one time.
COMPUTER MEMORY: (RAM)

 Ifthe computer does not have enough RAM to run

an application than pieces of the running
application will be stored on the Hard Drive
temporarily in a method known as “Virtual
Memory” and the CPU will then have to retrieve
information from the virtual memory causing a
bottleneck in the system.
 RAM is measured in bytes.
FLOPPY DRIVE

 Storage Devices -- "How it saves data

and
programs“
Hard disk drives are an internal,
higher capacity drive which also
stores the operating system which
runs when you power on the
computer.-
"Floppy" disk drives allow you to save
work on small disks and take the data
with you.
FEATURES:- FLOPPY DISK

Diskettes (Floppy
Disks)
Speed:
Very slow!
Capacity:

Normally 1.44 Mbytes .

Cost:

Very cheap .
 HARD DISKS

 Speed: Very fast!

The speed of a hard disk is often
quoted as "average access time"
speed, measured in milliseconds. The
smaller this number the faster the disk.
 Capacity:
Enormous! Often 40/80 Gigabytes. A
Gigabyte is
equivalent to 1024 Megabytes.
 Cost:
Hard disks costs are falling rapidly and
normally
represent the cheapest way of storing
data.
CD-ROM DRIVE

 They are disc drives which

read Compact Discs (CDs).
They are transportable and
can be used to perform
various tasks such as
reading data from the
computer and listening to
audio.
 Data is written on a CD by
burning pits into the disc to
produce non-reflective
areas.
DVD DRIVES

 Computer DVD drives can

be used to watch DVD
video, play audio CDs and
store information on DVDs
and CDs. DVD drives are
now being installed in new
computers instead of CD
drives.
 Computer DVD drives are
able to read data stored on
CD-ROMS and DVDs and
can play both video and
audio DVDs. CD-ROM
drives cannot read DVDs.
REFERENCE
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.org

 www.oeclib.in
THANKS