MODULE 2: Flashcards
INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES
The devices which are a means of communication between the computer and the outside
world are called
peripheral devices.
Those peripheral devices which supply information i.e. data and program from the
outside world to the computer are the __________.
input devices
Those peripheral devices which
give information from the computer to the user or store them in secondary storage
devices, like floppy disks or tapes for future use are called _____________
output devices.
The processors which are required to convert the input data into the machinereadable form and to convert the output generated by the computer into human-readable
form are known as _________________-
input/output (I/O) interfaces.
There are two concepts related to how
data is input to the computer:
- ONLINE DATA INPUT
- OFFLINE DATA INPUT
Here data is directly transferred to the computer
Online Data Input:
Here the data is not immediately transferred to the computer.
Off-line Data Input