Any of a variety of hardware equipment, including printer, modem, scanner, external drive, CD-ROM, and others, that enable the computer to perform additional functions A peripheral device is said to be online when it is in direct communication with a computer's central processing unit
- Any hardware component on a computer that's not the CPU In a networking context, it usually refers to some kind of device, such as a printer or a plotter, that users can share across the network
A piece of equipment (usually attached to one of the computer's ports) that lets users send and receive data to and from a computer Printers, modems, mouse devices, and keyboards are all peripheral devices
A device that can be attached to a host computer, using a SCSI bus for example Typical SCSI peripherals are disk drives, tape drives, printers, and communication devices
A Peripheral Device (PD) or Peripheral Unit (PU) is an auxiliary storage unit associated with or attached to a computer system It is usually used for storage of bulk data or for programs that are not often used by the system
Also known as a peripheral, a computer device, such as a CD-ROM drive or printer, that is not part of the essential computer, i e , the memory and microprocessor Peripheral devices can be external -- such as a mouse, keyboard, printer, monitor, external Zip drive or scanner -- or internal, such as a CD-ROM drive, CD-R drive or internal modem