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The Essential Guide to Computer Hardware will follow the style of the other titles in the Essential Guide Series to give the reader an overview of the latest technologies and trends in computer hardware design and implementation.
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From the Back Cover
The easy, 100% non-technical introduction to computers and networks!
Don't understand computers? Or Palms, or wireless phones, or digital cameras, or all those other new technologies? You're not alone! Here's your solution: Jim Keogh's easy, math-free, up-to-the-minute introduction to computers and communications. Jim Keogh starts with the elementary school science you need to understand how computers and networks work. From there, you'll follow a clear, easy path to understanding all of today's most important new computer and network technologies―and tomorrow's!
- How we got here: a brief, easy history of computer hardware
- A tour of the inside of your PC
- Computer hardware components: processors, memory, storage, and more
- Printers: how they work, and which one's right for you
- Connecting to modems and the Internet
- Input: from mice and keyboards to graphics tablets and speech recognition
- All you need to know about audio: sound cards, speakers, headphones, and more
- Capturing images: digital cameras, Webcams, digital video, and scanners
- Wireless: cell phones, messaging, PDAs, and notebook PC solutions
- The computer and Internet business: movers and shakers
- What's on the horizon: tomorrow's technologies, tomorrow's players
Whether you need to use technology, buy technology, manage technology, or simply understand technology, The Essential Guide to Computer Hardware is your perfect quick-start briefing!
About the Author
JAMES KEOGH was among the first to introduce PC programming nationally, in his Programmer's Notebook column in Popular Electronics magazine, starting in 1982―only a few years after the Apple II was created in a garage. His Prentice Hall PTR books include Windows Programmer's Notebook and C++ Programmer's Notebook, Second Edition. Keogh chaired the e-Commerce track at Columbia University and is on the graduate school faculty at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ, where he teaches in the MIS/MBA program.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0130620130
- ISBN 13 9780130620132
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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