A computer is nothing but a combination of several non-living physical components. Whenever all those physical components [ called hardware ] in combination give an output then it is a computer. Let us take a look of the above picture of a computer. It consists of several hardware components like keyboard, Mouse, Speaker, Monitor, CPU, Hard Disk, Floppy, DVD/CD Rom etc. and the functions of all these parts are quite different. If you analyze all physical parts of a computer you will notice some devices are for inputting data, some for storing data, some are for processing and some for outputting. Naturally whatever is your computer system consists of ; they just perform the following four basic operations:
The process of entering data and instructions into the computer system. Inputting is done by the Input Devices. Examples of some input devices are: Keyboard, Mouse, Sound-cards, Video capture cards, Digital Camera, Joystick, Light Pen etc.
Saving data and instructions so that they are available for initial or for additional processing as and when required is known as storing. Computers store all data in to its memory. We will discuss computers memory in details in later section.
The process of Performing arithmetic operations or logical operations [computers like equal to, less than, greater than, etc.] of data in order to convert them into useful information. Processing in done by the computer processor, Some processor names are Pentium III, Pentium IV, i3, i5,i7 and i9 etc.
Inputting => Storage => Processing => Outputting
Inputting
The process of entering data and instructions into the computer system. Inputting is done by the Input Devices. Examples of some input devices are: Keyboard, Mouse, Sound-cards, Video capture cards, Digital Camera, Joystick, Light Pen etc.
Storing
Saving data and instructions so that they are available for initial or for additional processing as and when required is known as storing. Computers store all data in to its memory. We will discuss computers memory in details in later section.
Processing
The process of Performing arithmetic operations or logical operations [computers like equal to, less than, greater than, etc.] of data in order to convert them into useful information. Processing in done by the computer processor, Some processor names are Pentium III, Pentium IV, i3, i5,i7 and i9 etc.
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