A notepad is a book a "thing" it is neither hardware or software.
notepad is default software from windows you can make blog template, html document, registry ., etc
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
A microphone is hardware. Software is what programs and games are called.
Motherboards are hardware components, not software.
both a hardware and software
Have to be hardware. How could you write software if there were no hardware to write it on?
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Software. Short and sweet. Hardware needs software to work.
hardware
Yes. Hardware can be touched and software cannot.