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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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