POIT Lesson 6 Peripherals

• Peripherals: Devices that provide the computer with input or output.
• Mouse - Input= Optical or laser, wireless or wired, trackball, USB mouse.
• Keyboard - Input= Input device that sends a signal of keys or key combinations to the computer as to what to do.
• Monitor - Output= CRT and LCD, Monitor can be an input device when it's a touch screen, pixel is a small colored dot that is displayed on a screen.
• Printer - Output= Scanner = reads the image that is a document or photo and sends it to a computer, can't save it as a processing document. Multi function = scans, prints, copies, faxes, etc. would have one at work.
• Flash Drive - Input= CD Drive, Floppy disk drive, Blu-ray. External Drives: Things that hold information as storage for you, can go into your computer, have bigger ones, 
• Tower Cases: have one bay for optical drive, different sized and types can be loaded into the same case
• Dream Computer: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Printer, Scanner, Storage Devices, Game controllers/joysticks