The Hardware reference article from the Simple Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Hardware

Hardware is short for Computer hardware. It means the fixed parts that make up a computer.

Some examples include:

• processor
• memory
• motherboard
• graphics card
• network card
• modem
• storage

Computer hardware needs software to tell it what to do.

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