BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pointing Stick, Ibm Pc Keyboard, Supercomputer

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: econcordia

Document Summary

Specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices (i. e. car) Enables you to enter data (text, images, and sounds) and instructions (user responses and commands) into the computer. Enter typed data and commands: mouse. Other input devices: microphone, scanner, digital camera, stylus. Devices that look like skinny pens but have no ink: tablet. Enhanced keyboard features: number, function, navigation keys. Notebook keys have alternate functions when used in conjunction with the f (function) keys (f1, f2, etc. ) Specialty keyboards: virtual laser keyboard, configurable keyboard. Wireless transmission standard that lets you connect mobile computing devices to peripheral devices. Uses laser technology or internal sensor: trackball. Stays stationary on desk: wireless mouse. Sends data to the computer by radio or light waves: integrated pointing device. No specific defined buttons; top surface is the button: touch pad/track pad. Most laptops have this input pointing device. Small, touch-sensitive area at the base of keyboard.