Chapter Introduction

Hardware is the physical component of a computer, anything you can touch is considered hardware. Keyboards, monitors and hard drives are all examples of hardware. A hard drive for example is basically a magnetic disk, in which stores data.When saving a file, your operating system tells the hard drive where on the disk to save the file.

While it may not be important to know every detail how hardware works, it helps to know at least some. Much like a car, its handy to to have a general idea about how a computer works.