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Use secondhand hardware and "open source" software. For the latter look in the related link below.
A firewalll is hardware or software that prevents hackers or malicious software from getting into your computer without your knowledge.
A VDU is hardware.
A user interface can be software or hardware, but it is mainly software. It will depend on the situation. If you are entering directly through a keyboard, it could be hardware, but software can also be considered, as the screen layout is designed by software and that is determining where you type on the screen, like the locations of text boxes, and it has the prompts and it is validating what you type in. We use hardware to enter data, but the actual user interface can be considered as software, though they are obviously linked.
A scanner is both hardware and software, the device itself is hardware (all devices are hardware) but the driver(a program) that runs it is software.
hardware
A microphone is hardware. Software is what programs and games are called.
both a hardware and software
Motherboards are hardware components, not software.
Have to be hardware. How could you write software if there were no hardware to write it on?
Software. Short and sweet. Hardware needs software to work.
hardware