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A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
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What type of software is used to format a diskette?
The formatting of a diskette is done by the driver hardware. Any software that can access the driver hardware interface can do this.
Is a diskette a software?
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
Is a diskette a software or hardware?
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
The physical devices that a computer is made of are referred to as?
The physical parts of a computer are all called hardware. That is opposed to ideas and invisible code called software that are encoded on a physical medium. Even a diskette or CD is technically considered hardware, while the data which is stored on it is software.
Is VDU hardware or software?
A VDU is hardware.
Is the sims a hardware or software?
The Sims is a game and thus it is a program. That makes it software. It is not a computer part.The key thing to keep in mind is that hardware is the physical parts of the computer, while software is invisible. If you want to be technical, a CD or DVD is really hardware. The information that is stored on it is the software. Just like a cassette tape, LP, or 8-track is not music, but merely the container for the music, a diskette, CD, DVD, or memory stick is not a program, but merely a container for programs.Now if you mean a SIMM (single inline memory module), that is hardware.
Is scanner a hardware or software?
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.
Is RAM software or hardware?
hardware
Is a microphone a hardware or software?
A microphone is hardware. Software is what programs and games are called.
Is a computer a software of hardware?
both a hardware and software
Is the motherboard hardware or software?
Motherboards are hardware components, not software.
What was first software or hardware?
Have to be hardware. How could you write software if there were no hardware to write it on?
