Understanding Personal Computer Hardware: Everything you need to know to be an informed · PC User · PC Buyer · PC Upgrader

✍ Scribed by Steven Roman

• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 453
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Introduction (Steven Roman)....Pages 1-2
Overview (Steven Roman)....Pages 3-22
Bits, Bytes and Words (Steven Roman)....Pages 23-40
The PC Hierarchy (Steven Roman)....Pages 41-72
Motherboards and Buses (Steven Roman)....Pages 73-94
Input/Output (Steven Roman)....Pages 95-108
PC Supporting Systems (Steven Roman)....Pages 109-116
The Microprocessor (Steven Roman)....Pages 117-137
Memory (Steven Roman)....Pages 139-154
Keyboards (Steven Roman)....Pages 155-166
Mice (Steven Roman)....Pages 167-171
Display Monitors (Steven Roman)....Pages 173-186
Display Adaptors (Steven Roman)....Pages 187-202
Device Interfaces: Floppy, IDE and SCSI (Steven Roman)....Pages 203-229
Hard Drives I: Physical Characteristics (Steven Roman)....Pages 231-249
Hard Drives II: Logical Characteristics (Steven Roman)....Pages 251-280
Floppy Drives (Steven Roman)....Pages 281-290
The Parallel Interface (Steven Roman)....Pages 291-298
Printers (Steven Roman)....Pages 299-317
Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission (Steven Roman)....Pages 319-324
The Serial Interface (Steven Roman)....Pages 325-334
Modems (Steven Roman)....Pages 335-358
Optical Storage (Steven Roman)....Pages 359-368
Back Matter ....Pages 369-440

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Computer Science, general