What's Hardware and Software?

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Hardware and Software

The History of Computers and the Internet

Hardware: the mechanical,electrical,or structural components of an
electronic computer , teaching machine or other automatic machine.

The three main components of hardware are computer chips, then internal basicinput/output systems called BIOS, and individual system parts.

Software: the designs, instructions, routines, and other printed matter required for the operation of a computer or other automatic machine.

Hardware and Software created in order to form and/or make a electronic device that could receive a set of instructions, or programs and then
carry out this programing.