Terminal equipment is divided into two types: general-purpose and special-purpose. General-purpose terminal equipment refers to general-purpose computer input and output devices with communication processing and control functions. The type and quantity of configuration depends on needs. The input and output devices that can usually be selected are: keyboard, card reader, paper tape reader, optical character or mark recognition machine, voice recognizer, serial or line printer, display, card punching machine, paper tape punching Machines, voice synthesizers, floppy disk drives, tape drives, disk drives, etc. General-purpose terminal equipment is roughly divided into two types: remote batch processing terminal and interactive terminal according to the variety and quantity of configuration.
