Input and output devices

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What this unit covers

• Input devices and their uses: Students should be familiar with input devices and their applications. This includes understanding the features, functions, benefits, and drawbacks of various input devices such as keyboards, numeric keypads, pointing devices, remote controls, joysticks or driving wheels, touch screens, scanners, cameras, microphones, sensors, and light pens.
• Direct data entry and associated devices: Students should be familiar with direct data entry and related devices. They need to understand the features, applications, benefits, and drawbacks of various direct data entry devices such as magnetic stripe readers, chip and PIN readers, RFID readers, OMR, OCR, barcode readers, and QR scanners.
• Output devices and their uses: Students should be familiar with output devices and their functions. This includes understanding the features, applications, benefits, and drawbacks of various output devices such as monitors, touch screens, multimedia projectors, laser printers, inkjet printers, dot matrix printers, plotters, 3D printers, speakers, and actuators.