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Hardware and Multimedia

Hardware and Multimedia. Hardware/Multimedia. Multimedia is about generating ideas, expressing creativity, and sharing information across boundaries. But for all its intellectual and social power, multimedia depends on objects made of metal, plastic, and glass.

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Hardware and Multimedia

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  1. Hardware and Multimedia

  2. Hardware/Multimedia Multimedia is about generating ideas, expressing creativity, and sharing information across boundaries. But for all its intellectual and social power, multimedia depends on objects made of metal, plastic, and glass. All multimedia programs depend on computer technology for viewing, and all multimedia products are produced by computers.

  3. Hardware/Multimedia Computers are digital devices that read and process information as a series of individual bits of data rather than a continuous stream Devices such as tape recorders and televisions are analog, which means they work with information as a continuous stream

  4. Personal Computers (PCs) Operating systems – software that enables computers to run other software and perform basic task. Many PCs use the Microsoft Windows operating systems. Many different companies make computers that use the windows OS Macintosh computers , made by Apple, use an operating system called Mac OS that runs only on Macintosh Computers.

  5. Laptops and Handheld devices Laptops and handhelds are designed to be portable.

  6. Networks A server is a computer that manages files and other resources for a network. In a typical network several PCs are connected to a single server. Other devices such as a scanner, a printer, or a projector; to the server so that many people can share them.

  7. Input, Output, and Storage Input - any information that is entered into a computer for transmission and processing. Output - any information that is produced or processed by the computer. Storage – Storage devices gives you a means of saving your work, so it is not lost when you turn off the equipment. Also the software you work with must be stored in a way that gives you easy access to it for repeated use.

  8. Input Devices Microphone Keyboard Scanner Mouse

  9. Input Devices Game Controller Webcams Digital Camera Input Devices enable you to enter information into the computer.

  10. Input Devices Synthesizers and Electronic keyboard Graphic Tablet

  11. Output Devices Printer Monitor Output devices enable you to see or hear what the computer produces or processes.

  12. Output Devices Head Phones Projector Speakers

  13. Storage Devices

  14. Storage Devices Flash drives CDs Memory cards

  15. The End

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