Section 2 -Input and Output devices

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Your book explains about
Keyboards
Numeric Keypads
Pointing devices
Remote Controls
Joystick/Gamepads
Touch Screens
Magnetic Stripe Readers
o Read the back lines on credit cards which are magnetized strips or metal
under black plastic
o CMB card contains
beginning symbol
bank information
account number
Code for PIN
Ending symbol
1) You swipe card
2) Reader reads all info on MS
3) Calls bank
4) Give Account number
5) Asks for PIN, you enter PIN
6) Give bank Account and PIN and amount, asks for authorization
7) If yes, machine prints receipt, and bank hold money
8) If no, machine declines purchase
9) If wrong PIN or invalid account, machine declines purchase
Chip readers and PIN Pads
o A small multi-segment microchip which is read a reader, then you enter a
PIN number
Scanners
Digital cameras
Sensors
o Heat, light, sound, pressure
Graphics (Drawing Tablet)
Optical Mark Reader
o A piece of paper with bubbles which you mark with a pencil
o Can be easily graded by a machine which looks for these bubbles
Optical Character Reader (Recognition)
o a camera looks for shapes (letters), and converts this to digital text
Bar Code Reader
o the computer uses a scanner to look for a thinner or thicker black lines, or groups of
lines. Length does not matter
QR Code
o http://barcode.tec-it.com/
o http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_code
o Video camera/web cam
o Light pen

Monitors
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube. This is like an old television, where electrons are shot at your face
from the rear if the monitor
TFT - Thin Film Transistor. A piece of glass with thousands of tiny pixels(dots). Each pixel has
three transistors, which and emit red, green or blue.

About 300 PPI is what Apple calls Retina. This means you cannot see the individual pixels as they
are too small for human eye
LDPI: Low Density ~ 120 dots per inch
MDPI: Medium Density ~ 160 dots per inch
HDPI: High Density ~ 240 dots per inch
XHDPI: Extra High Density ~ 320 DPI
XXHDPI: Extra, Extra High Density ~ 480 DPI

TFT (flat screen) displays need a light behind the glass to shine through so you can see it. Older
displays use a fluorescent light, newer use a LED light, which are more efficient

Multimedia projectors
a bright light shines on a TFT through a lens and on to a wall
Printers
Laser Printer
Expensive to buy, cheap to run
Ink-Jet Printers
Cheap to buy, expensive to run
Dot-Matrix printers
expensive to buy, VERY cheap to run, poor quality image, can print on
carbon copies. Text only
Graph Plotter
VERY large printer (laser or Ink-jet)which can print large pieces of paper
(building plans)
Speakers
Actuators (computer controlled switches)
Buzzers (simple speakers which produce only one tone)

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