POIT Lesson 6 Peripherals

• Peripherals are devices that are used for input or output
• Input
• mouse
• keyboard
• flash drive
• Output
• monitor
• printer
• Keyboard
• uses key and key combinations to send information to your computer
• software interprets the keystrokes
• Mice
• USB wireless mouse
• wired mouse
• trackball
• Monitors
• CRT 
• LCD
• Monitors can be input devices when they are touch screens
• High Definition
• pixel-small color dot (square) that is displayed on a screen
• more pixels=more detail
• Printers/scanners/multifunction 
• printer-output
• scanner-input
• multifunction-both
• Drives
• changed over years
• 3 1/2 in floppy drive
• CD-ROM drive
• DVD drive
• Blu-ray
• external drive
• USB drive
• DVD drive with laser light
• tower cases
• have many features in one

• Standard peripherals
• keyboard
• mouse
• monitor
• printer
• scanner
• storage drives