what is hardware?

Answer 1

Anything that I can hit you with.

Answer 2

Generally Speaking: -

Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology.

It can be equipment such as fasteners, keys, locks, hinges, latches, corners, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal. In the United States, hardware has been traditionally sold in "hardware stores".

Though often used interchangeably to mean "hand tools," hardware historically referred to the metal bits that were used to make wooden products stronger, more functional, longer lasting and easier to fabricate/assemble than if they did not have the benefit of metal fittings.

In a looser sense, hardware can be major military equipment, or electronic equipment, or computer equipment.

In slang, the term refers to trophies and other physical representations of awards.

In Computers: -

Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, including the digital circuitry, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. The hardware of a computer is infrequently changed, in comparison with software and data, which are "soft" in the sense that they are readily created, modified or erased on the computer. Firmware is a special type of software that rarely, if ever, needs to be changed and so is stored on hardware devices such as read-only memory (ROM) where it is not readily changed (and is therefore "firm" rather than just "soft").

Most computer hardware is not seen by normal users. It is in embedded systems in automobiles, microwave ovens, electrocardiograph machines, compact disc players, and other devices. Personal computers, the computer hardware familiar to most people, form only a small minority of computers (about 0.2% of all new computers produced in 2003) Market statistics.

Answer 3

Hardware is a comprehensive term for all of the physical parts of a
computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the
software that provides instructions for the hardware to acoomplish tasks.
The boundary between hardware and software is slightly blurry - firmware is
software that is "built-in" to the hardware, but such firmware is usually
the province of computer programmers and computer engineers in any case and
not an issue that computer users need to concern themselves with.

A typical computer (Personal Computer, PC) contains in a desktop or tower
case the following parts:

* Motherboard which holds the CPU, main memory and other parts, and has
slots for expansion cards
* power supply - a case that holds a transformer, voltage control and fan
* storage controllers, of IDE, SCSI or other type, that control hard disk
, floppy disk, CD-ROM and other drives; the controllers sit directly on
the motherboard (on-board) or on expansion cards
* graphics controller that produces the output for the monitor
* the hard disk, floppy disk and other drives for mass storage
* interface controllers (parallel, serial, USB, Firewire) to connect the
computer to external peripheral devices such as printers or scanners

* Computer architecture
o Central Processing Unit - CPU
o Motherboard
+ PCI Bus
+ ISA Bus
+ USB
+ AGP
* Storage
o Compact disc
o What is a disk versus what is a disc
o DVD
o Floppy disk
o Hard disk
o Punch card
o RAM
o Tape Drive
* Input/Output
o Braille Embosser
o CD-ROM
o Keyboard
o Monitor
o Mouse
o Computer Speech Recognition
o Computer Speech Synthesis
o DVD-ROM
o Digitizing Tablet
o Graphics card
o Joystick
o Joypad
o Modem
o Network card
o Plotter
o Printer
o Refreshable Braille Display
o Scanner
o Sound card
o Touch screen
o Trackball
o Webcam
o Pointing devices

Answer 4

All the Physical Components of the computer are called " Hardware "


In other words " Computer Peripherals " can also be called as Computer Hardware

Answer 5

Hardware refers to the physical elements of your computer,

The tower, monitor, hard drive, modem, printer, video graphics card, motherboard, cdrom, etc. is all hardware.

Software refers to programs that change memory not the hardware.

Answer 6

Hardware refers to the physically appearing part like RAM, Processor, Cabinet, Hard Disk etc(Which are very hard too.. :) ). Software is something u can't see of touch, just use it.

Answer 7

hardware when related to computers is all the parts that go to make up a pc...for eg: the motherboard,the CPU,the optical drives (burners etc) the video card and the hard drive
software are the programs that are loaded to make those devices work and to perform other functions on your pc

Answer 8

Any physical components that related with computer or other electrical or electronic devices are known as hardware. eg.monitor, mouse,etc...

Answer 9

hardware mean peripheral,card, components etc.
hardware:- assembling, troubleshooting, fault finding, repairing monitor, printer, smps, mouse etc.

Answer 10

OMG ur r using a comp and u dont kno whts HARDWARE? lol

Answer 11

intersection / combination of physical parts is called or all the physical parts that can be replaced and repairable is called physical components of a computer is called the hard ware