peripheral device LastModified: Friday, December 14, 2001
A computer device, such as a CD-ROM drive or printer, that is not part of the essential computer, i.e., the memory and microprocessor. Peripheral devices can be external -- such as a mouse, keyboard, printer, monitor, external Zip drive or scanner -- or internal, such as a CD-ROM drive, CD-R drive or internal modem. Internal peripheral devices are often referred to as integrated peripherals. Also see I/O.
Integrated Peripherals Describes the settings that control system integrated peripherals. This page is from "The PC Guide". Yahoo!'s peripherals page Yahoo!'s directory of peripherals.	related categories: Hardware Peripheral Devices related terms: ACPI controller data glove device external bus I/O integrated peripheral KVM switch PIA SPI