How Computers WorkThis is a premier four-color guide to PCs. Using hundreds of pages of detailed, color drawings, this book not only tells, but shows readers everything from how a signal travels through a circuit to why a game controller works. The information is presented in an easy-to-understand, visual setting that explains the technology in simple terms. Fully-animated CD-ROM takes viewers on an up-close multimedia tour of the inside of a computer and its working parts. |
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accelerated graphics port adapter analog audio binary numbers BIOS bitmap bits buffer BYTE cache called capacitor CD-ROM drive Chapter charge CISC clusters color commands components compression computer's connection connectors controller create CVF CVF CVF data lines defragging device disc display dots electrical electrons expansion slot faster file allocation table floppy drive floptical gate graphics hard drive hardware input instructions Internet joystick keyboard laser beam layer light magnetic memory microprocessor modem mouse move multimedia onscreen operating system packets PC Card PC's Pentium Pentium II personal computers pixels Plug printer processor Read head read/write heads RISC scan scanner screen SCSI send data serial port server signals speed storage stored surface switches tape tells track transistor turn unit VFAT voltage Windows Windows 98 wires write head Zip drive