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HARDWARE
The physical parts of a computer
system.
More Detailed Definition:
Refers to objects that you can
actually touch, like disks, disk drives, display screens,
keyboards, printers, boards, and chips. In contrast, software is
untouchable. Software exists as ideas, concepts, and symbols, but
it has no substance.
Books provide a useful analogy. The pages and the ink are the
hardware, while the words, sentences, paragraphs, and the overall
meaning are the software. A computer without software is like a
book full of blank pages -- you need software to make the computer
useful just as you need words to make a book meaningful.
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