A keyboard and mouse are examples of hardware?

[eshbop]

well yeah you're right too.. it is just kinda hard to change the way you think about things but I gotta do it cause I want good marks in my exams right...

That's what exams are about, writing what the teacher wants to see.

[brob]

Hardware - physical entities

Firmware - programs embedded in hardware for the operation thereof

Software - programs that solve user problems

Vaporware - hardware, firmware, or software that exists only in the minds of marketing types.

 

Occasionally instructors are correct.

[SirReallySam]

I think it's hardware... As David Tennant Agrees

[brob]

I gotta disagree, in terms of computers I'd say hardware is anything physical that makes up the entire computer system, to which a mouse and keyboard are required while a MIDI interface or headphones aren't. Even then I'd almost be tempted to call them hardware.

 

And you'd be right to call them hardware. Any physical entity that is part of a computer system is hardware.

[Cy-Fy]

That's what exams are about, writing what the teacher wants to see.

yes although I refuse to say that cotton comes from animals... (yes my teacher 2 years ago tried to teach me that. I was like no no bitch that aint gonna cut it, but that's another story )