Question

What is peripheral equipment? Define it and give examples.

Answer 1

Examples of peripheral devices include terminals, printers, external floppy disk drives and other data storage devices, video monitors, keyboards, interface boards, external memory expansion cards, and other input/output devices that may or may not contain digital circuitry.

Answer 2

Any items that send input to the device, but are not the device itself. Examples would include the mouse, keyboard, or microphone.