output deviceElectronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a {display screen}, {printer}, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as {disk drives} and {magnetic tape drives} act as both input and output devices, others such as {CD-ROM} are input only. (1997-03-18)