Input and Output Devices

Input Devices (Basic)

Keyboard
Mouse
Devices for the Hand
Pens
Touch Screens
Game Controllers
Audio Visual Input Devices
Microphones and Speech Recognition
Video Input
Output Devices
Monitors
PC Projectors
Sound Systems

Basic Input Devices
The most basic and primary Input Device
Uses:
Type a Document
Keyboard Shortcuts
Accessing Menus
Playing Games,
And many other tasks
Most keyboards have between 80 and 110
keys, including:
Typing keys (Alphabets and Numbers)
A numeric keypad ( Separate Keypad for Numbers)
Function keys (F1 to F12)
Control keys (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, HOME, END, PG
UP, PG DOWN, PAUSE, BREAK, etc)
As in general typewriters
Most common layout is QWERTY

Other layouts include ABCDE, XPeRT, QWERTZ
and AZERTY
In 1986, IBM extended the basic keyboard
with the addition of function and control
keys.
These keys can be used by the Operating
System to perform system tasks.

Arrow Keys (4)
Home
End
Insert
Delete
Page Up
Page Down
Control (Ctrl)
Alternate (Alt)
Escape (Esc)


Windows PC: START Key
Apple Mac: COMMAND Key
Linux: TUX Key
Matrix
Rubber Dome
Connectors
Serial (Now obsolete)
PS/2
USB
Wireless (Bluetooth, IR, RF)
Internal Connectors for Laptop
Most common device after Keyboard
The position of a pointer on the Display
through the Mouse
Different Technologies:
Ball (Classic)
Optical
Serial (Obsolete too)
PS/2
USB
Wireless
Alternate Input Devices
Used to input data
To Point
To Paint
To Write

Very Common for PDAs

Connectors:
USB
Wireless
Accepts inputs directly through monitor
Mostly used in PDAs and Tablet PCs
Applications in ATMs, POS, etc.

Joysticks
Flight Simulators
Fighting Games
Gamepads
For both hands

Audio Visual Devices
Digital Scanners
Digitizes documents and images into Images to
store in computer
OCR
Recognizes characters from scanned books to
actual text
Microphone can accept auditory input
A sound can be digitized and saved into
computer memory.
Analog Sound Signals
Analog Signals are Digitized
Digital Audio Output
[electrical signals] (ex. 11100011) to
computer
Categories:
CRT Monitors
Traditional
Flat Panel Monitor
LCD, Plasma etc.
Cathode Ray Tube Monitors:
Cheap
Good for Graphical Detail
Mature Technology
Liquid Crystal Display
Less desk space needed
Require less power to run, more environmentally
friendly
Increased Viewable area, a 15"LCD can give the
same viewable area as a 17" CRT monitor

Input Devices (Basic)
Keyboard
Mouse
Devices for the Hand
Pens
Touch Screens
Game Controllers
Audio Visual Input Devices
Microphones and Speech Recognition
Video Input
Output Devices
Monitors
PC Projectors x
Sound Systems x