Components of A Computer System

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COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
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HARDWARE SOFTWARE
KINDS
Input
INPUT
APPLICATIO
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WORD
Output
SPREADS
PROCESSORS
System DATAB
HEET
Unit PRESENTATION
ASE
WEB
Storage OPERATIN
BROWSERS
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Computer Hardware
✩Refers to the
physical equipment or
components of an
electronic data
processing.
Input Devices
An input device lets you
communicate with a
computer. You can use input
devices to enter data and issue
commands.
Input Devices
DATA ENTRY
-the process of entering data into
the computer memory and issuing
commands that tell the processor
how to work with the data.
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KEYBOARD
DEVICES MOUSE
SCANNER
WEB CAM
MICROPHONE
KEYBOARD
- The standard input device of
most computers. It is used to
input text and characters by
depressing buttons (referred
to as keys), similar to a
typewriter.
MOUSE
- a hand-clicked device
that used for pointing.
- Douglas Englebart
designed and built the
first model in 1963.
- Used to put
printed
pictures and
text into a
computer.
IMAGE SCANNER
- a low resolution
video camera used
to provide visual
input that can be
easily transferred
over the internet.
- an acoustic sensor
that provides input by
converting sound into
an electrical signals
MICROPHO
Output Devices
• An Output Device
displays information on
a screen, creates
printed copies or
generates sound.
FORMS OF
COMPUTER
GENERATED
•
•
OUTPUTS
TEXT OUTPUT – alphanumeric characters
GRAPHIC – drawings, maps and different kinds
of graphics
• SOUND OUTPUT – computer message beeps up
to the human voice to music
• VIDEO – photographs or moving images such as
television and videotaped material.
TYPES OF OUTPUT
DEVICES
• HARD COPY
– An output w/c you can hold in your
hands (tangible).
• SOFT COPY
– Output can be easily modified by
the computer.
OUTPUT DEVICES
PRINTER Click
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MONITOR
SPEAKER
MODEM
IMPACT
PRINTER P r i nte r
-provides hard
Dot
copy output on
Matrix
paper
NON-IMPACT
PRINTER
Inkjet
Laser
CRT monitor-
(Cathode Ray Tube) LCD
Monitors-
(Liquid Crystal Display)
-Used to provide soft copy output. It

shows image or video output, and
processed information on a screen.
-A device that gives an audio output
by converting electrical signals into
sounds. It is used for audio output
such as beeps, human voice and
music.
Modem
(Modulator-DEModulator)
-Used to connect one computer to another via
conventional telephone lines.
-INPUT DEVICE
signals  “undestand”
-OUTPUT DEVICE
Signals  “understood”
System Unit
-is the core of the computer,
responsible for accepting and
processing the data brought in by
the input devices and responsible
for passing the resulting
information to the users via the
output devices
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MOTHERBOARD
POWER SUPPLY
COOLING FANS
INTERNAL DISK
DRIVES
EXPANSION
CARDS
-The main circuit board
of a microcomputer. It is
also known as the main
board or
system board.
-supplies power to the
other components in a
computer.
-is any fan inside a computer case used for
cooling purposes, and may refer to fans that
draw cooler air into the case from the
outside, expel warm air from inside, or
move air across a heat sink to cool a
particular component.
-holds and spins
a magnetic or
optical disk and
reads and writes
D
information
er n al i s k D
t
on it.
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-printed circuit board that
can be inserted into an
expansion slot of a
computer motherboard to
add functionality to a
computer system.
Storage
Devices
Allows you to store data
and information.
PRIMARY STORAGE
DEVICES
-refers only to mask ROM (the oldest type
of solid state ROM), which is fabricated
with the desired data permanently stored
in it, and thus can never be modified.
ROM
(Read Only
Memory)
PRIMARY STORAGE
DEVICES
- means that the memory cells can be
assessed in any order. The computer
can store, retrieve, alter or delete any
items held in the RAM at random.
RAM
(Random Access
Memory)
SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES
-mostly used for casual backup of
software. They have low capacity,
and are very, very slow compared
to other storage devices.
FLOPPY DISKS
- the Zip drive is a medium-

capacity removable disk
storage system
ZIP DISKS
-is part of a unit, often called a
"disk drive," "hard drive," or
"hard disk drive," that stores and
provides relatively quick access to
large amounts of data.
HARD
DISK
-(“compact disc read-only
memory") is a pre-pressed compact
disc that contains data accessible
to, but not writable by, a computer
for data storage and music
playback, etc.
CD-ROM
-Read Only Memory, or DVD-ROM,
is a media storage disk that closely
resembles a CD or compact disk.
The major difference is that the
DVD-ROM is formatted to hold far
more data
DVD-ROM
-consists of a flash memory

data storage device.
FLASH DISK
-is an electronic flash memory

data storage device used for
storing digital contents.
MEMORY CARD
Computer Software
✩It provides the

commands that tells the
hardware what tasks to
perform, what to read
and write, how to send
TYPES OF SOFTWARE
A. SYSTEM SOFTWARE
consist of programs designed to facilitate
the use of the computer by the user. Any
software required to support the production
and execution of application programs but
which is not specific to any
particular application.
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
1. OPERATING SYSTEM
A set of program designed to efficiently manage
the resources of the computer system.
2. LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR
Is a system program that converts the English-
like instructions used by computer
programmers into the machine-readable
codes used by the hardware.
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
3. UTILITY PROGRAM
Perform such standard tasks as
organizing and maintaining data
files, translating programs written in
various languages to a language
acceptable to the computer.
TYPES OF SOFTWARE
B. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
• Are programs that people use to get their
work done. It may include data entry,
update query and report programs,
productivity software for spreadsheets,
word processing, etc.
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
3. UTILITY PROGRAM
Perform such standard tasks as
organizing and maintaining data
files, translating programs written in
various languages to a language
acceptable to the computer.
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