Computer Peripherals (2nd Edition) - Hardcover

Doyle, Leo F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137794630 ISBN 13: 9780137794638

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

New edition of a text that provides coverage of micro, mini, and mainframe peripherals. The authors provide descriptions, methods of operation, and future trends, as well as information on installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. Some of the devices covered include keyboards, drives, scanners, modems, LANs, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and software. Appends information on the RS-232C interface, the Centronics interface, viruses, and controlling static. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book offers comprehensive, single-source coverage of most of the commonly available computer peripherals (and some not-so-common ones) from the micro, mini, and mainframe computer worlds. Each peripheral is discussed in terms of its physical description, installation, method of operation, trouble shooting, maintenance, and schematics. Covers disk drives; tape drives; other storage devices; keyboards; optical scanners and digitizers; other input devices; printers; displays; local area networks; modems; terminals; character codes; music and sound generation; speech synthesis; speech recognition; low-level interfacing; software. Emphasizes the various facets of the peripherals themselves, not the operation of the central computer. Discusses the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of similar devices. For anyone involved with or interested in computers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137794630
• ISBN 13: 9780137794638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264