Hardware
<hardware> The physical, touchable, material parts of a computer or other system.
The term is used to distinguish these fixed parts of a system from the more changable
software or
data components which it executes, stores, or carries.
Computer hardware typically consists chiefly of electronic devices (
CPU,
memory,
display) with some electromechanical parts (keyboard,
printer, disk drives, tape drives, loudspeakers) for input, output, and storage, though completely non-electronic (mechanical, electromechanical, hydraulic, biological) computers have also been conceived of and built.
See also
firmware,
wetware.
