Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Mike Meyers
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October 3, 2016 - August 1, 2017
IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981,
router is a networking device that controls and directs the flow of information over networks, such as e-mail messages, Web browsing, and so on.
The secret to avoiding ESD is to keep you and the parts of the computer you touch at the same electrical potential, otherwise known as grounding yourself to the computing device. You can accomplish this by connecting yourself to the computer via a handy little device called an
antistatic wrist strap.
Always disconnect power before repairing a personal computing device.
The best way to prevent RFI is to keep radio-emitting devices as far away as possible from other electronics.
Charles Babbage, father of the computer
A modern computer consists of three major components: • Hardware • Operating system • Applications
hardware
physical stuff that you can touch or hold...
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operating system (OS) controls the hardware and enables you to tell the computer what to do.
Modern computing devices almost always have two other stages: • Data storage • Network connection
Data storage
network connection
nine steps that apply to most computers and computing devices when you want to get something done: 1. Power up. Computers run on electricity. 2. Processing parts prepare for action. 3. You provide input. 4. Processing parts process your command. 5. Processing parts send output information
to your output devices. 6. Output devices show you the results. 7. Repeat Steps 3–6 until you’re satisfied with the outcome. 8. Save your work. 9. Power down the computer.
Control Panel The Control Panel handles most of the maintenance, upgrade, and configuration aspects of Windows.
