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
A VDU is hardware.
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.
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.
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?