WHATS the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICE??
Please help. I'm so confused!
I know a mouse
Please help. I'm so confused!
I know a mouse is an example of an input device and a monitor and speakers are examples of output devices, but why?
Any help out would be much appreciated. Thanks :)
Answers:
input devices are to put information in any form into a computer (mouse, scanner,...)
Output devices are what you use to get hold of information out of the computer (speakers, a printer, a cd-writer).
Some devices are a bit of both, which can make it confusing. A touch-screen is output (you can see the information on it) as powerfully as input (you can use it to put in topical information). Same goes for printer/scanners - those who own both functions built in are both input and output devices
Hope that help
1 is input 1 is output I think the easiest track to determine the difference between an input and output device, and subsequently answer your question is to deliberate of what direction information is going with relation to the device you are using.
For example, if you are using a PC mouse, the movements of your hand/fingers is individual changed into electrical impulses to relay the computer what to do. This, therefore, is an input device. This routine you are sending information TO the computer.
Each time you move the mouse or click on an icon, the computer sends you some feedback near the speaker or by what the screen displays (cursor moves, deity changes color, etc.). This tell you that the monitor is an output device since it is providing some sort of output to you, the user.
After you have the concepts above inherent, you can carry it over into other devices such as flash drives, thorny drives, CD-read drives, CD read/write drives, printers, etc.
For example, a printer is an output device because you are delivery output from your computer.
A read/write CD or DVD drive is both an input and output device because not simply can you get information into your computer FROM it, you can also dispatch information TO it from your computer.
I hope this helps.
Think of the relationship between the device and the person using it. If the human being is using it to send information to another device afterwards the device would be taking that person's input (the information is going in to the device). If the device is sending information hindmost to the person (usually as ocular information such as a monitor, or audible information such as a speaker) then this device is providing output notes back to the soul (the information is coming out of the device).
Input feed in,Output feed out.