Category: Computer Hardware
History of Computer Science
The Development of Binary Logic • As in the case of algorithms, computers rely on something else that originated in ancient times-binary logic. • The binary system was invented by the Indian mathematician Pingala in the 3rd century BCE. In this system, any number can be represented with just zeroes and ones. • It was…
History of computer Hardware and Software Development
What we now call a computer can be more formally described as a Stored Program Electronic Digital Computer and in this article that is what I will use this term to mean. But apart from the human computers mentioned earlier, until the 1960s, there were two different types of computer: Analogue Computers and Digital Computers….
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Microprocessors
The Hardware Book
Single Crystal Silicon
Presentation On Computer Memory
motherboards
Motherboard and its components
A motherboard is an electronic circuit board in a computer which interconnects hardware devices attached to it — which is to say, all of the system hardware. At a minimum, it includes one or more Central Processing Units (CPU), and the main processing activity of the computer takes place on it. However, other connected printed…
Microprocessor_based_personal_computer_system
The introduction of microprocessors had a huge impact on the way we use computers. Computers that once took large areas were reduced to the size of small desktops. Although these desktop computers are small and compact, they possess computing power more than that of the large size computers of the previous generation. Here, in this…