Output Devices

As they run, most computer programs output data to various places. In programming, output means data that the program sends outside of itself to a some device. For us, output mostly will go to the computer monitor.

Output can be sent to:

• the monitor
• a hard disk
• a diskette (floppy disk)
• the printer
• a sound board
• the Internet
• hundreds of other places

A piece of hardware that uses data from program is called an output device.