A NICE edition, USEFUL! Front cover has curl marks at the corners. Plenty of scuff to the covers which are reinforced. Light scuff to the paperback cover and the page edge, this book is in PRESENTABLE condition.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: How Computers Work
Publisher: Ziff Davis Pr, Emeryville, California, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1562765469
ISBN 13: 9781562765460
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Downs, Timothy Edward; Alcantara, Sarah Ishida
Condition: Good

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Synopsis

A beautifully illustrated gift edition of the introduction to computer technology explores the inner workings of a personal computer and provides coverage of such new developments as the MMX chip, virtual reality, and 3D animation. Original. (Beginner).

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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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