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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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  • © 1998

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  1. Steven Roman
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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 1-2

  3. Overview

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 3-22

  4. Bits, Bytes and Words

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 23-40

  5. The PC Hierarchy

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 41-72

  6. Motherboards and Buses

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 73-94

  7. Input/Output

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 95-108

  8. PC Supporting Systems

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 109-116

  9. The Microprocessor

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 117-137

  10. Memory

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 139-154

  11. Keyboards

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 155-166

  12. Mice

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 167-171

  13. Display Monitors

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 173-186

  14. Display Adaptors

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 187-202

  15. Device Interfaces: Floppy, IDE and SCSI

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 203-229

  16. Hard Drives I: Physical Characteristics

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 231-249

  17. Hard Drives II: Logical Characteristics

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 251-280

  18. Floppy Drives

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 281-290

  19. The Parallel Interface

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 291-298

  20. Printers

    • Steven Roman
    Pages 299-317
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Personal Computer Hardware

  • Book Subtitle: Everything you need to know to be an informed · PC User · PC Buyer · PC Upgrader

  • Authors: Steven Roman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6419-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Steven Roman 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98531-2

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-6419-1

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 440

  • Topics: Computer Science, general

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