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In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read().

Computer devices such as mice, printers, scanners and speakers are known as peripheral hardware. These peripherals are further split into two categories, input devices and output devices.