Peripheral
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- For an account of the words periphery and peripheral as they are used in biology, sociology, politics, computer hardware, and other fields, see the periphery disambiguation page.
The term also tends to be applied to devices that are hooked up externally, typically through some form of computer bus like USB. Typical examples include joysticks, printers and scanners. Devices such as monitors and disk drives are not considered peripherals when they are not truly optional, and video capture cards are typically not referred to as peripheral because they are internal devices.
List of common peripherals
- Storage
- * Removable (Writes/reads portable media)
- ** CD
- *** CD-ROM
- *** CD-RW
- *** CD-R
- ** DVD
- *** DVD-ROM
- *** DVD-RW
- *** DVD-R
- ** USB flash drive
- ** Tape drive
- ** Floppy disk
- ** Punch card
- * Internal
- ** Disk array controller
- Input
- * Manual
- ** Keyboard
- ** Pointing devices
- *** Mouse
- *** Trackball
- ** Joystick
- ** Touch screen
- ** Joypad
- * Brain-computer interface
- * Image scanner
- * Computer terminal
- * Computer speech recognition
- * Webcam
- * Digitizing tablet
- * Barcode reader
- Output
- * Printing
- ** Plotter
- ** Printer
- ** Braille embosser
- * Sound
- ** Computer speech synthesis
- ** Sound card
- ** Speakers
- ** Microphone
- * Visual
- ** Graphics card
- ** Monitor
- * Refreshable Braille display
- Networking
- * Modem
- * Network card
See also
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