Your Computer

What is a Computer?

A computer can be described as an electronic device, which receives data/information as Input, processes it, stores it and delivers processed data/information as Output.

Computers can carry out billions of actions/ processes per second with accuracy and can store huge amount of data/information. Due to speed of processing of data, reliability and huge data storage capacity, computers have entered in all walks of our lives in one way or the other.

Computers come in various shapes and sizes viz. hand held PDAs, portable note books or lap tops, desktops , servers, main frame computers (a network of computers), super computers etc.

In this tutorial, we have confined ourselves to Personal Computers (PCs), which come in horizontal or Flat bed type CPU box (monitor is placed over CPU box) and tower type CPU box (monitor is placed alongside CPU box) shapes. Due to more space available inside a tower type CPU box for connecting cables etc., the tower type shape has become more popular and horizontal CPU boxes have become outdated.

To know more about following hardware components, please click on the arrow

	Motherboard
	SMPS
	BIOS
	RAM and ROM
	Processor / Microprocessor / CPU
	Hard Disk Drive or Hard Disk
	Floppy Disk Drives
	USB Flash Drives
	CDs, DVDs and CD / DVD Drives
	Monitors
	Keyboards
	Mouse
	Printers
	Modems