KNOWING MORE ABOUT COMPUTER KEYBOARD

Starting from known to the unknown, the mouth as part of the body play a great role.There is a particular part of the computer that function exactly like the mouth. That part is the keyboard! The keyboard is one of the third main parts of the computer. It is usually called the MOUTH of the computer because of how its work.

Like every human being with mouth, for eating, the mouth of the computer is the keyboard. The KEYBOARD has many keys usually arranged on its flat board. The word KEYBOARD is the combination of two words; they are “KEY” and “BOARD”, If “1 + 1 = 2” Also keyboard can be shown as

KEY + BOARD = KEYBOARD

When you look at home there is a device that the computer keyboard looks like, the ABACUS or TYPE WRITER! Though they look alike but they cannot perform work the same way. The computer keyboard can do more than a single thing, while the ABACUS or TYPE WRITER can do only one thing. Although the keyboard looks like a typewriter, its work is more than what the typewriter can do, the typewriter can only carry out a single work, but it (the keyboard) can perform more than a single work.

The computer keyboard is very useful to send data into the computer. These datacould be in form of Numbers, Alphabets, and Symbols. Because keyslike: Numerical keys, alphabetical keys, special keys, function keys are arranged on it.

It is a KEYBOARD because it is not connected already to the computer system. When it is alone it cannot perform it work, because whatever is being done on the keyboard would not be seen. But when the keyboard is connected to other parts of the computer system, it can no longer be called a keyboard, because it is not working alone, but with others computer part as one.

The work of the keyboard is basically used for Typing, Sending Data into the Computer and also Sending Signals into the Computer System, it can also be used to Control all other activities that go on in the Computer System Environment. Beyond what has been mentioned before, the Keyboard when connected to the computer system it can help us do the following: 

·     For playing computer games

·     For drawing object or anything

·     Used as a computer mouse

·     Used as shortcut commands

QUICK QUIZZ

1. The Computeris made of _________ parts        (a) Two     (b) Five   (c) Three

2. ________ looks like a Typewriter        (a) Monitor        (b) Keyboard     (c) Mouse

3. KEY   +   ______ is keyboard              (a) Bud              (b) Bode            (c) Board 

4.____ is one of the computer main parts  (a) Keyboard     (b) Floppy Diskette (c) AC

5.  The keyboard is use for_______              (a) eating          (b) Displaying         (c) Typing

6. The mouthof computeris ________ part   (a) Keyboard   (b) CPU                  (c) Monitor

7. The computer keyboardlooks like _______   (a) Radio       (b) Guitar           (c) Abacus

8. The computer keyboard and ABACUScan do the same kind of work (a) NO  (b) YES