Topic 5 Web Activity #11.The physical components that make up your computer are known as computer hardware.Peripherals are bits of hardware that can be added to a computer to make it run better. Itsfunctions include taking input, storing data, displaying output, and executing commands.2.Input devicesare any devices that users need to send commands to a computer. Such as akeyboard.Output devices allowcomputers to transfer data to other computers or users. Such as amonitor or speaker.Processing devices,processing is the stage in which raw data is turned into information sothat it can be outputted to the user. Such as a CPUMemory devices,any device that may temporarily or permanently store information isreferred to as a memory device. There are two forms of memory: RAM (random accessmemory), which is used to temporarily store instructions and data before and after they areprocessed, and flash memory, which is used to store data permanently. Any external storage
