How Computers Work (How It Works (Ziff-Davis/Que))

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Posted by checkraiser under Architecture

Title: How Computers Work (How It Works (Ziff-Davis/Que))

Authors: Ron White

Description

This is a full-color, illustrated adventure into the wonders of your PC. Now with new and updated content and brilliant graphics covering all the new technologies, How Computers Work, Deluxe Edition is your ticket to learning everything about your PC. Take a trip through the neural pathways and vital organs of your personal computer to discover the latest cutting-edge technologies, how they work, and how they are changing the way people use PCs. Full-color illustrations make the most complex subjects easy to understand. Follow computer expert Ron White as he shows you the latest technology developments, including the Internet, multimedia sound and video, Pentium II processors, virtual reality, DVD drives, digital cameras, color printing, and more in new chapters on the hottest PC components. Whatever your age level or technical expertise, How Computers Work, Deluxe Edition will capture your imagination, delight your eyes, and expand your mind!

Updated version of the 1992 best-seller

How Computers Work is a sort of picture encyclopedia illustrating the various technologies that make up the computer on your desk. It will appeal to anyone who’s curious about how a disk drive stores a word processing document, what is actually happening when your PC runs through its lengthy startup process, how a modem transmits data, or how a sound card turns your voice into a data file.

You could of course lead a long and productive computing life without ever knowing how data moves across the Internet, what happens when a computer is connected to a network, or what RAM is. You might have no interest in how fonts work, what’s laser about a laser printer, or how e-mail moves your messages around the globe. You could still have a computer and not know what SCSI is, how a scanner scans, or how your graphics adapter creates accelerated 3-D graphics. And sure, you may have been blasting away at tanks without knowing how that force-feedback joystick works. But where’s the fun in that?

How Computers Work focuses primarily on the IBM-compatible PC and its peripheral products. Because much of this technology exists on the Mac and other platforms, Mac users might be a little unsatisfied at being excluded. Otherwise, this handsomely illustrated book of PC technology has something for every computer user.

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