input device
<hardware> A peripheral used to transfer data from the outside world into
a computer system. Some input devices are operated directly by the user, e.g.
keyboard, mouse, touch screen, joystick, digitising tablet, microphone; others
are sensors or transducers which convert external signals into data, e.g. using
an ananlog to digital converter (this would also be true of a microphone). Other
kinds of inputs are really one half of a bidirectional link with another
computer or storage device, e.g. serial line, SCSI interface.
(1996-11-03)
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