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In computing, a hardware device, such as a printer or external disk drive, that is separate from but connected to and controlled by the computer system's central processing unit (CPU).The computer system generally makes use of a program known as a driver to deal with device-specific peripheral operations.

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Any input, output or storage device connected externally or internally to the computer's CPU, such as a monitor, keyboard, printer, disk, tape, graphics tablet, scanner, joy stick, paddle or mouse.

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