Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer. Hardware can contain software and most of the time needs software and drivers to run.
Common hardware components
There are lots of types of hardware. Here are the most common types of hardware.
Main computer components
Input devices
Main wiki page: Input devices A input device allows you to input data to a computer system. Here are some examples:
- Mouse
- Touchpad
- Trackball
- Touchscreen
- Graphics tablet
- Microphone
- Webcam
- Scanner
- Barcode scanner
- Scanner
- OCR
- MICR
- MSR
- Smart card
- Biometric sensor
- Light pen
- Gesture recognition device
- MIDI controller
Output devices
Main wiki page: Output devices A output device allows you to see data that the computer is sending out. Here are some examples: