PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

Output Devices The output devices of any computer are linked to the senses of its human operator. If you haven’t made this conne ...

near-high fidelity sounds produced from a CD-ROM or DVD, digital systems and sound are a match made in audio heaven. See Chapter ...

(^22) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Not counting the millions of transistors crammed into a computer’s microprocessor, there a ...

This part of the book (Part I—The Basics) also contains an introduction to some of the underlying concepts and principles of the ...

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L ike a blender or any other electrically powered appliances, the computer runs on electricity. Without electricity, a computer ...

As pictured in Figure 2-1, the analog signal fluctuates among a series of values, all of which are represented on the wave line. ...

(^28) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide what is called abyte. A byte can store smaller integer numbers or a single character. The ...

Probably thebest way to think about how a power of two value is expressed in binary is that a one turns on a particular value, a ...

(^30) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The Hexadecimal Number System Another number system you should be aware of is the hexadeci ...

ABCDEF represents 11,259,375 in decimal. It is unlikely that you will see hex numbers like 101 or ABCDEF; it is far more likely ...

Electricity and the PC Abasicunderstandingofthepropertiesofelectricityisnecessarytobeabletounderstand how a computer operates. T ...

While the water is flowing through a pipe or hose, it experiences some loss of pres- sure through friction. The same thing happe ...

(^34) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide External Power Issues The PC’s power supply solves the internal power issues for the compu ...

Chapter 2: Basic PC Concepts and Terminology^35 A Quick Overview of the Electronics of the PC The electronic components of your ...

Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors The DC electrical flow inside the computer, or outside for that matter, travels over ...

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