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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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In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
By that day you will be the business manager of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, with a hundred and thirty-four branches in the towns and villages of France, not counting one in Brussels and one in San Remo.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
In those days the Standard Oil Company did not deliver oil to the consumer in big wagons and motor trucks as it does now, but delivered instead to retail grocers, hardware stores, and the like.
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