Mixed Peripherals

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• Examples of mixed peripherals

Themixed peripherals or bidirectional are those electronic devices that operate as input and output of information, allowing data to be entered or extracted from the system, either as a rigid support (physical, portable) or not.

The denomination of peripherals It is because they are not part of the central processing unit (CPU) of the computer, but can be connected to it to communicate with the outside world (operations of Input/Output). The mixed are those capable of performing both tours, entry and exit.

See also:

• Examples of Input Devices
• Examples of Output Devices

Examples of mixed peripherals

• Smartphones. Contemporary cell phones have full connection capacity with the computer, allowing the entry and exit of information, applications and data of all kinds, from and to both devices.
• Multifunction printers. New generation devices, designed to carry out both functions independently: introduce visual information to the computer (scan) and physically extract it on paper or other media (print).
• Touchscreens. It serves the purpose of delivering visual information to the computer operator, just like conventional monitors, but it also allows data to be entered by touch.
• Hard drivesor hard(Hard drives). Data storage units of all kinds are at the service of the CPU both in the retrieval of saved information, and in the protection of new information. They are usually found inside the computer and are usually immobile.
• Floppy (Floppy Disks). The extinct 5 ¼ and 3 ½ floppy disks were artifacts that allowed the physical transport of small amounts of digital information, as well as feeding and extracting data from the computer.
• USB Memory Drives. The most recent evolution of portable input and output units, they are called Pendrive due to its pencil shape and its extreme portability and versatility, since just by plugging them into a USB port they allow information to be extracted and entered.
• Headsets. Known as such because they go in the head and are typical of telephone operators, the microphone and headphone sets function as an output device (headphones) by receiving sound information and input (microphone) by allowing the same specific type of data to be entered.
• ZIP units. Designed for the comfortable transfer of large volumes of compressed information, they operated in the same way as floppy disks, but from specific units for this, very popular in the world of graphic design.
• Modems. Devices for the transmission of data at a distance, through telephone networks or of a different nature, allow to receive and send information equally, from and to some secondary storage medium.
• Virtual Reality Headsets. Designed to recognize the movements of the user's head (input) and synchronize them with the display (output) on screens arranged directly in front of their eyes, the result of said actions, it is a case of mixed device widely used in specialized simulations.

• CD / DVD Reader-Writers. Although most do not allow the incorporation of new data once it has been issued, these optical discs revolutionized input and output peripherals at the time, since special "burning" or engraving units facilitated the rapid incorporation of computer data to the disks, turning them into a matrix from which to recover it on numerous occasions.
• Digital cameras. Since they allow the downloading of photographic information in the secondary storage units of the computer (output) and at the same time capture real data of the same nature (input), they can be considered mixed peripherals.
• Digital Book Readers. Readers of ebook in various formats, they operate as mixed peripherals since they allow the introduction of books in various digital formats (input) and read them on the touch screen or not (output).
• Mp3 players. Contemporary portable musical devices (iPods, etc.) allow music information to be input (input) from the computer and played back through headphones (output).
• USB port HUBs. Adapters that allow multiplying this type of bi-directional ports, in turn act as mixed peripherals by enhancing the volume of data input and output from other peripherals in turn.
• Transmitters Bluetooth. Low frequency radio transmission devices to communicate in turn various peripherals or even entire computers, are bidirectional and wireless but with short range.
• WiFi network boards. Similar to transmitters Bluetooth, they allow the entry and exit of digital information to and from the Internet, through the transmission of radio waves.
• Fax. A mixture of photocopier and modem, they revolutionized the world of telecommunications at the time, allowing the capture (input) and transmission (output) of document images, which are in turn received from the other side of the telephone line.
• Joysticks vibrant. The game bars, so popular in decades past, reproduced the gaming sensation of consoles on the PC, and operated both as a source of data (input) and as an emission (output) of vibrate responses at key moments in the video game.
• Smartglass. Powerful augmented reality lenses, which operate on the basis of modifying perceived reality by displaying information directly on the glass (output), while receiving verbal commands (input).

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• Input and output peripherals
• Communication peripherals