01339nam a22001577a 4500 141111b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 1562760947 QA76.5.W488 White, Ron How computers work. / Ron White Emeryville: Ziff-Davis Press, 1993. xii, 202p.: ill.; 27cm. Includes index. Contents: Boot-up process: How the power-on self-test works -- How a disk boot works -- How an operating system works -- Microchips: How a transistor works -- How RAM works -- How a microprocessor works -- How a RAM cache works works -- How a CD-ROM drive works -- How a magneto-optical drive works -- How a Bernoulli drive works -- How a tape backup drive works -- How a drive array works -- Input/output devices: How a bus works -- How a keyboard works -- How a computer display works -- How a serial port works -- How a parallel port works -- How a mouse works -- How a modem works -- How a scanner and optical character recognition work -- How a pen-based computer works -- Networks: How LAN topologies works -- How network communications works -- Printers: How bitmapped and outline fronts work -- How a dot-matrix printer works -- How a laser printer works -- How an ink-jet printer works -- How a color thermal printer works. lcc BK 5258 12758 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 SPECIAL COLL 2014-11-11 0 QA76.5.W488 7527/555/13 2014-11-11 00:00:00 2014-11-11 BK