From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 1: Computer Basics, Hardware, and Operating Systems
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General use I/O devices
From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 1: Computer Basics, Hardware, and Operating Systems
General use I/O devices
- Computing devices compute. They process information. They enable us to produce content, to communicate, to have fun. The processing components are inside the computing device like you saw in the chapter two episodes. The interaction with the user comes through input/output devices. On an awesome computing device like this smart phone, all the input/output devices are built into the same system. The touch screen, for example, enables us to input information, and then the touch screen also shows the processing and the information back to us. So the touch screen is both a input and an output device. What other kind of input/output devices does the smart phone have? I know, hey, Siri? (phone dinging) That's right, voice for input, and sound for output. The device also has cameras for additional input devices. Once you start scaling up the computing devices, you begin to get some separation between the processing…
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