Microcomputer Repair - Softcover

Antonakos, James L.; Adamson, Thomas A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131984926 ISBN 13: 9780131984929

Publisher: Pearson Education (US), 1995

Synopsis

Revised, expanded and updated, provides today's computer-and-information-literate student with an application-driven approach to the essentials of microcomputers and their repair. The second edition of this text/lab manual conveys coverage of the most recent themes and developments in the field through a stronger pedagogical framework than its predecessor.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The fourth edition of Microcomputer Repair contains 58 exercises divided into six units. This combined text and tab manual is designed to teach beginning electronics students the fundamental skills needed to service microcomputer systems' hardware and software.

Major revisions to this edition are:

• Key terms and summary sections, additional information, and several new self-test questions and. activities have been added to all the exercises.
• Six new exercises increase coverage of Windows and networking.
• Exercise 51, Computer Languages, now contains exposure to additional languages typically used an the PC, such as Visual C++ and Visual BASIC.
• Photos of new and current computer hardware have been added.
• A new Appendix C covers fault tolerance in Windows NT.
• A new Appendix D provides information -on installing and upgrading Windows.
• A glossary, which contains detailed terms related to microcomputer systems, has been added.

Two CD-ROMs are packaged with the text:

• One CD-ROM contains DOS-executable programs called WiNQUIZ and NETQUIZ, which test the reader's knowledge of the text material, as well as demonstration versions of useful networking and file-management utilities.
• A second CD-ROM provides a demonstration version of McAfee Utilities™.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131984926
• ISBN 13: 9780131984929
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 576