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MAIN PARTS OF A COMPUTER


                 Let us learn about the main parts of a computer.

                      Monitor

                 A monitor looks like a television. We watch cartoons,

                 videos, movies, photos, drawings, documents, etc. on
                 the monitor.                                                                     Monitor

                      Keyboard


                 Have you seen a landline phone? It has small buttons on it. To dial a number, we
                 press the buttons.

                                In the same way, we press the buttons on the keyboard to tell the

                                computer what to do. The buttons on the keyboard are called keys. We
                                press the keys on the keyboard to tell the computer what to do. Using

                 Telephone      the keyboard we can type letters, numbers, etc.


                           Tech Fact

                   The keyboard was first

                   invented by Christopher
                   Latham Sholes.
                                                                                       Keyboard



                      Mouse

                 Have you seen a mouse?

                 A computer also has a mouse. The computer mouse looks
                 quite  similar to  a real mouse.  It is  connected  to  the  CPU/

                 cabinet box by a long wire that looks like a tail.

                 A mouse has buttons on it. We use a mouse to tell the computer what to do by
                 pointing at and selecting on things on the monitor.


                                                                        Tech Fact


                                                         The mouse was invented by
                                                         Douglas C. Engelbart.
                      Mouse



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