to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother. to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back. to make a copy of; reproduce closely. to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.
The input device might be a keyboard, the output device might be a monitor, a communication device might be a modem, a secondary storage device might be disk drive, and the processing devices include central processing unit (CPU) and main memory.
Once you understand that computers are about input, memory, processing, and output, all the junk on your desk makes a lot more sense: Artwork: A computer works by combining input, storage, processing, and output. All the main parts of a computer system are involved in one of these four processes. 1  Input: Your keyboard and mouse, for example, are just input unitsâways of getting information into your computer that it can process. If you use a microphone and voice recognition software, that's another form of input. Memory/storage: Your computer probably stores all your documents and files on a hard drive: a huge magnetic memory.