Understanding Personal Computer Hardware: Everything You Need to Know to Be an Informed PC User/Byer/Upgrader Book

	Preface
	Contents
	Introduction	1
1	Overview	3
2	Bits, Bytes and Words	23
3	The PC Hierarchy	41
4	Motherboards and Buses	73
5	Input/Output	95
6	PC Supporting Systems	109
7	The Microprocessor	117
8	Memory	139
9	Keyboards	155
10	Mice	167
11	Display Monitors	173
12	Display Adaptors	187
13	Device Interfaces: Floppy, IDE and SCSI	203
14	Hard Drives I: Physical Characteristics	231
15	Hard Drives II: Logical Characteristics	251
16	Floppy Drives	281
17	The Parallel Interface	291
18	Printers	299
19	Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission	319
20	The Serial Interface	325
21	Modems	335
22	Optical Storage	359
App. A1	Trying the Experiments	369
App. A2	Cache Designs	377
App. A3	SIMM Chip Counts	381
App. A4	How Memory Works	385
App. A5	Real and Protected Modes	393
App. A6	Sector Translation	403
App. A7	How Data Is Encoded on a Disk	409
App. A8	Intel Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide	417
	Index	429