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OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS What is input? Computer input is whatever is typed, submitted, or transmitted to a computer system. Input can be supplied by a person by the environment, or by another computer. Examples of the kinds of input that computers can accept include words and symbols in a document, numbers for calculation pictures, temperatures from thermostat, audio signals from microphone, and instructions from computer program. An input device, such as keyboard or mouse gathers data and transforms into series of electronic signals for the computer to store and manipulate What is output? Output is the result produced by computer. Some examples of computer output include reports, documents, music, graphs, and pictures. Output devices display, print, or transmit the results of process ...