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hardware

Mechanical, electrical, and electronic components of a computer system, as opposed to the various programs, which constitute software.

In a microcomputer, hardware might include the circuit boards, the power supply and housing of the processing unit, the VDT (screen), external memory devices such as disk drives, a printer, the keyboard, and so on.



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