Hardware is any accessory or item that you physically plug into your computer to use like a keyboard or printer. software is downloadable content like an online computer game that you downloaded from the internet.
I'm guessing you are looking for the term "legacy" hardware/software.
Software are programs. They originally came on floppies, which gives the term software. Software are the things you can't touch. Hardware is the hard drive, the computer, the things you can touch.
my understanding of the term firmware is that it is software that runs the hardware of a system
Software
A VDU is hardware.
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
either hardware or software too old and cant be used by current computer system
A microphone is hardware. Software is what programs and games are called.
It depends on whether you are referencing to hardware or software. When talking about hardware, it is a place where a piece of hardware can connect to another. When talking about software, interfaces provide access to data or computer resources, such as memory.
Motherboards are hardware components, not software.
both a hardware and software