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Understanding Personal Computer Hardware

Everything You Need to Know to Be an Informed - PC User - PC Buyer - PC Upgrader

By: Steven Roman

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Paperback | 31 July 1998

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This is a book for the PC user who would like to understand how their PCs work. It is written for the reader who is not a computer or electrical engineer but who wants enough information so that they can make intelligent buying or upgrading decisions, maximize their productivity, and become less dependant on others for help with their computer questions and problems. The book provides a thorough yet concise description of the entire IBM-type PC, including its subsystems, components, and peripherals. The book concentrates on PCs based on the Pentium and Petium Pro class processors. The book contains easy-to-do experiments that readers can perform to actually see how things work. Understanding PC Computer Hardware can be read cover to cover or used as reference source.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Hardware Personal Computers Computer Science Storage Media & Peripherals

Preface
Contents
Introduction	p. 1
Overview	p. 3
Bits, Bytes and Words	p. 23
The PC Hierarchy	p. 41
Motherboards and Buses	p. 73
Input/Output	p. 95
PC Supporting Systems	p. 109
The Microprocessor	p. 117
Memory	p. 139
Keyboards	p. 155
Mice	p. 167
Display Monitors	p. 173
Display Adaptors	p. 187
Device Interfaces: Floppy, IDE and SCSI	p. 203
Hard Drives I: Physical Characteristics	p. 231
Hard Drives II: Logical Characteristics	p. 251
Floppy Drives	p. 281
The Parallel Interface	p. 291
Printers	p. 299
Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission	p. 319
The Serial Interface	p. 325
Modems	p. 335
Optical Storage	p. 359
Trying the Experiments	p. 369
Cache Designs	p. 377
SIMM Chip Counts	p. 381
How Memory Works	p. 385
Real and Protected Modes	p. 393
Sector Translation	p. 403
How Data Is Encoded on a Disk	p. 409
Intel Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide	p. 417
Index	p. 429
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Understanding Personal Computer Hardware

Everything You Need to Know to Be an Informed - PC User - PC Buyer - PC Upgrader

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