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  2. Output device - Wikipedia

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    A display device is the most common form of output device which presents output visually on computer screen. The output appears temporarily on the screen and can easily be altered or erased. With all-in-one PCs, notebook computers, hand held PCs and other devices; the term display screen is used for the display device.

  3. Input/output - Wikipedia

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    Devices for communication between computers, such as modems and network cards, typically perform both input and output operations. Any interaction with the system by an interactor is an input and the reaction the system responds is called the output. The designation of a device as either input or output depends on perspective.

  4. Information and communications technology - Wikipedia

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    Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications [1] and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and ...

  5. Text entry interface - Wikipedia

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    A text entry interface or text entry device is an interface that is used to enter text information in an electronic device. A commonly used device is a mechanical computer keyboard. Most laptop computers have an integrated mechanical keyboard, and desktop computers are usually operated primarily using a keyboard and mouse.

  6. Computer terminal - Wikipedia

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    A text terminal, or often just terminal (sometimes text console) is a serial computer interface for text entry and display. Information is presented as an array of pre-selected formed characters . When such devices use a video display such as a cathode-ray tube , they are called a " video display unit " or "visual display unit" (VDU) or "video ...

  7. Text-based user interface - Wikipedia

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    Text displayed anywhere on the screen can be edited, and if formatted with the required command syntax, can be middle-clicked and executed. Any text file containing suitably-formatted commands can be used as a so-called tool text, thus serving as a user-configurable menu. Even the output of a previous command can be edited and used as a new ...

  8. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PIO—Programmed Input/Output; Pixel—Picture element; PKCS—Public Key Cryptography Standards; PKI—Public Key Infrastructure; PLC—Power Line Communication; PLC—Programmable logic controller; PLD—Programmable logic device; PL/I—Programming Language One; PL/M—Programming Language for Microcomputers; PL/P—Programming Language for ...

  9. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...