💻1.3. Hardware vs Software.

💻Hardware:

Hardware consists of the physical components of a computer system, which include peripheral equipment – equipment outside of the tower case – such as printers, modems, scanners, monitors, keyboards and mouse devices. The 3 essential peripherals include the monitor (output), keyboard and mouse (input). Hardware is broken up into four categories: input, output, storage and processing.

🎮Software:

There are 2 types of software: The Operating System (OS), and Application Software. The OS on these machines is Microsoft Windows. We will look at Windows later in the notes. Application Software consists of programs or sets of instructions that cause the computer

system to behave in a given way. E.g.

📘Microsoft Word - Word Processing Software;

📗Microsoft Excel - Spreadsheet Software;

📒Microsoft PowerPoint - Presentation Software;

🌐Internet Explorer - Internet Browsing Software.