Peripheral

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peripheral : a device connected to a computer to provide communication (as input and output) — Webster

Peripheral (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)

Encyclopedia

Peripheral is a device connected to a host computer, but not part of it, and is more or less dependent on the host. These are also input/output devices. It expands the host’s capabilities, but does not form part of the core computer architecture. An output peripheral is an external device that provides input and output for the computer. For example RAM has a peripheral output. Some peripherals, such as the external hardrive, provide both input and output for the computer. Usually for every external device there are input and output peripherals. An example of only input peripherals, a keyboard and a mouse are input and peripherals. An example of an output peripherals are hard drives disk. — Wikipedia

Peripheral (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Category: Computer peripherals (Wikipedia)

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Preservation

Museum

Computer Peripherals (The Science Museum Group)

Input & Output (Computer History Museum)
People & Machines Communicating: Input and Output (Computer History Museum)
Input Devices: Sometimes Clever, Sometimes Strange (Computer History Museum)

Library

Melvil Decimal System # 004.7 Peripherals (Library Thing)
Melvil Decimal System # 621.398 Interfacing & Communications Devices (Library Thing)
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Peripheral (Library Thing)

WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library

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Participation

Education

Micro:bit Educational Foundation (YouTube Channel)
Micro:bit Educational Foundation (Official Website)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Government

Document

Computer Peripherals (USA.gov)

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Media

Function	Communications	Computation	Storage	Creation	Simulation
Analog	Mail	Device	Paper	Type, Print	Automaton
Electronic	Network	Calculator	Tape	Record	Elektro
Digital	Internet	Computer
Hardware	Modem	Microprocessor	Memory	Peripheral	Robot, XR
Software	Service (Web)	Program (OS, SS)	Database	Application	AI, VW

Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“

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Notes

1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.