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

by Steven Roman

Overview

Written for readers who are not computer or electrical engineers, this book is for those who want enough information to make intelligent buying or upgrading decisions, maximize their productivity, and become less dependant on others for help. It provides a thorough yet concise description of the entire IBM-type PC, including its subsystems, components, and peripherals, concentrating on PCs based on the Pentium and Petium Pro class processors. With its easy-to-do experiments Understanding PC Computer Hardware can be read cover to cover or used as a reference source.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387985312
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	07/31/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Overview.- Bits, Bytes and Words.- The PC Hierarchy.- Motherboards and Buses.- Input/Output.- PC Supporting Systems.- The Microprocessor.- Memory.- Keyboards.- Mice.- Display Monitors.- Display Adaptors.- Device Interfaces: Floppy, IDE and SCSI.- Hard Drives I: Physical Characteristics.- Hard Drives II: Logical Characteristics.- Floppy Drives.- The Parallel Interface.- Printers.- Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission.- The Serial Interface.- Models.- Optical Storage.