The document provides an overview of computer hardware basics including input, output, and storage devices. It describes common input devices like keyboards and pointing devices. It discusses output to screens, printers, and other devices. It also covers various storage media including magnetic disks, tapes, and optical disks. The document emphasizes that computer systems integrate various input, output, and storage peripherals and that networks allow sharing of resources between multiple computers.

1. Chapter 3 Hardware Basics: Peripherals

3. Input: From Person to Processor

4. The Keyboard The most common input device is the keyboard, which is used to enter letters, numbers and special characters.

7. Pointing Devices

19. Examples of Color Depth 1-bit depth 16-bit depth 8-bit depth 4-bit depth