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What makes computer hardware hard?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The term hardware likely came from it being physical materials such as tools or other items you'd find in a hardware store. "Hard" in this case could also refer to it being tangible items. Hardware is the physical parts of the computer that you can see, touch, etc. Software is more invisible and intangible. Media itself such as a CD, cassette tape, or memory stick is considered hardware, but the computer code and ideas encoded on such media are software.

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9y ago

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