Brief on Input and output unit of a computer

Brief on Input and output unit of a computer.


An i/o unit is a component of computer .The i/o unit is composed of two parts input unit and out unit .The input is responsible for providing input to the computer and the output unit receive output from the computer.
     
             INPUT UNIT
·      The input unit gets the data programs from various input devices and make them available for processing to other units of the computer.



·      The input data is provided through input devices  such as KEYBOARD,MOUSE,TRACKBALL AND JOYSTICK . The input data can also be provided by scanning images , voice recording ,video recording etc.

3.Irrspective of the kind of input data provided to a computer .All the input devices must translate the input into a form that is understandable by the computer .i,e.. in machine readable form is done by the input interface of input device.
In brief , the input unit accepts input data from the user via input devices ,transforms the input data in computer acceptable form using input interface for the input device and provides the transformed input data processing ……



INPUT DECVICES:
Keyboard, mouse, digitizing tablet ,track ball ,joystick, touch screen, Light pen ,Speech Recognition system, Digital camera, scanner, magnetic ink character recognition (MICR), Optical character recognition, Optical Mark Recognition, Barcode reader.

           OUTPUT UNIT

·     The output unit gets the processed data from the computer and sends is to output devices to make them available to the user of computer.

·     The output data is provided through output devices like display screen , printer, plotter and speaker .
·     The processed data sent to the output device is in machine understandable form . This processed data is converted to human readable form by the output interface of output device .In brief ,the output unit accepts output data from computer via output devices ,transform the output formation to human readable form using the output interface of output device and provides the transformed output to user .
In addition to input devices and output devices ,some devices function as both input and output devices . The I/O devices provide the input to computer as well as get output I/O devices are used by both the input unit and the output unit. Hard disk drive ,floppy disk drive , optical disk drives are examples of I/O devices.

OUTPUT DEVICES:
Monitor, visual display, terminal: Printer, plotter, common output on microfilm(COM) , video output system(VOS), Audio response system.            



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