SHORT NOTE: INPUT DEVICES

Input Devices

Keyboard Mouse Joystick Digitising Tablet Touch Sensitive Screen Light Pen Space Mouse Digital Stills Camera Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) Optical Mark Reader (OMR) Image Scanner Bar Codes Magnetic Reader Smart Cards Voice Data Entry Sound Capture

Any hardware device that sends data to the computer, without any input devices, a computer would only be a display device and not allow users to interact with it, much like a TV. To the right is a Logitech trackball mouse, an example of an input device. Below is a full listing of all the different computer input devices found on a computer. Bar code reader Digital camera Game pad Joystick Keyboard Microphone MIDI keyboard Mouse (pointing device) Scanner Web cam