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KEYBOARD

computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device, which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches. Following the decline of punch cards and paper tape, interaction via teleprinter-style keyboards became the main input device for computers.

Features

1. Despite the development of alternative input devices
2. such as the mouse
3. touchscreen
4. pen devices
5. character recognition and voice recognition
6. the keyboard remains the most commonly used device for direct (human) input of alphanumeric data into computers.