printers and mice are all hardware.

History of computing hardware Antikythera mechanism, Difference engine, Calculators Norden bombsight First Generation (Mechanical/Electromechanical) Jacquard loom, Analytical engine, Harvard Programmable Devices Mark I, Z3 AtanasoffBerry Computer, IBM 604, Calculators UNIVAC 60, UNIVAC 120 Colossus, ENIAC, Manchester Small-Scale Second Generation (Vacuum Experimental Machine, EDSAC, Manchester Tubes) Programmable Devices Mark 1, Ferranti Pegasus, Ferranti Mercury, CSIRAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC I, IBM 701, IBM 702, IBM 650, Z22 IBM 7090, IBM 7080, IBM System/360, Mainframes Third Generation (Discrete BUNCH transistors and SSI, MSI, LSI PDP-8, PDP-11, IBM System/32, IBM Integrated circuits) Minicomputer System/36 Minicomputer VAX, IBM System i 4-bit microcomputer Intel 4004, Intel 4040 Intel 8008, Intel 8080, Motorola 6800, 8-bit microcomputer Motorola 6809, MOS Technology 6502, Zilog Z80 16-bit microcomputer Intel 8088, Zilog Z8000, WDC 65816/65802 Intel 80386, Pentium, Motorola 68000, ARM Fourth Generation (VLSI 32-bit microcomputer architecture integrated circuits) Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SPARC, 64-bit microcomputer[51] x86-64 Embedded computer Intel 8048, Intel 8051 Desktop computer, Home computer, Laptop computer, Personal digital assistant (PDA), Personal computer Portable computer, Tablet PC, Wearable computer Quantum computer, Chemical computer, DNA Theoretical/experimental computing, Optical computer, Spintronics based computer Other Hardware Topics Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick, Image scanner, Webcam, Input Graphics tablet, Microphone Peripheral device Output Monitor, Printer, Loudspeaker (Input/output) Floppy disk drive, Hard disk drive, Optical disc drive, Both Teleprinter Short range RS-232, SCSI, PCI, USB Computer busses Long range (Computer Ethernet, ATM, FDDI networking)

A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem. Conventionally a computer consists of some form of memory for data storage, at least one element that carries out arithmetic and logic operations, and a sequencing and control element that can change the order of operations based on the information that is stored. Peripheral devices allow information to be entered from an external source, and allow the results of operations to be sent out. A computer's processing unit executes series of instructions that make it read, manipulate and then store data. Conditional instructions change the sequence of instructions as a function of the current state of the machine or its environment. The first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (19401945). Originally, they were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).[1] Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space.[2] Simple computers are small enough to fit into mobile devices, and mobile computers can be powered by small batteries. Personal computers in their various forms are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as "computers". However, the embedded computers found in many devices from mp3 players to fighter aircraft and from toys to industrial robots are the most numerous it mainly contains 1.memory unit 2.input 3.output 4.control unit 5.ALU ALU is arithmetic and logical unit used to perfom calculations control unit is used to generate control signals