The Essential Guide to Computer Hardware (Paperback)
The Essential Guide to Computer Hardware (Paperback)
by Jim Keogh & James Keogh
From the Back Cover
The easy, 100% non-technical introduction to computers and networks!
Don’t understand computers? Or Palms, or wireless phones, or digital cameras, or all those other new technologies? You’re not alone! Here’s your solution: Jim Keogh’s easy, math-free, up-to-the-minute introduction to computers and communications. Jim Keogh starts with the elementary school science you need to understand how computers and networks work. From there, you’ll follow a clear, easy path to understanding all of today’s most important new computer and network technologies—and tomorrow’s!
- How we got here: a brief, easy history of computer hardware
- A tour of the inside of your PC
- Computer hardware components: processors, memory, storage, and more
- Printers: how they work, and which one’s right for you
- Connecting to modems and the Internet
- Input: from mice and keyboards to graphics tablets and speech recognition
- All you need to know about audio: sound cards, speakers, headphones, and more
- Capturing images: digital cameras, Webcams, digital video, and scanners
- Wireless: cell phones, messaging, PDAs, and notebook PC solutions
- The computer and Internet business: movers and shakers
- What’s on the horizon: tomorrow’s technologies, tomorrow’s players
Whether you need to use technology, buy technology, manage technology, or simply understand technology, The Essential Guide to Computer Hardware is your perfect quick-start briefing!
About the Author
JAMES KEOGH was among the first to introduce PC programming nationally, in his Programmer’s Notebook column in Popular Electronics magazine, starting in 1982—only a few years after the Apple II was created in a garage. His Prentice Hall PTR books include Windows Programmer’s Notebook and C++ Programmer’s Notebook, Second Edition. Keogh chaired the e-Commerce track at Columbia University and is on the graduate school faculty at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, where he teaches in the MIS/MBA program.