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.
In this lesson, we'll explore IPOS (input, process, output and storage) and how this system works. Information systemsinputprocessoutputstorageIPOS. Input is anything we wish to embed in a system for some type of use. A variety of sources are used to input: keyboard, scanner, microphone, mouse, even another computer. What we input has a purpose - but until it is processed and generated in some form of output, it doesn't do us much good. Processing takes place in the internal parts of the computer.