Computer Basics |
Contents
The Power of the Binary Code | 29 |
Simple Rules for a Complex World | 39 |
A Wartime Burst of Progress | 51 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adder address bus ADDRESS DECODER Aiken Altair Analytical Engine Apple arithmetic Atanasoff Babbage Babbage's binary digits binary numbers bits Boole Boolean built byte calculator called camera carry central processing unit charge circuitry clock column components computer's Corporation data bus decimal number device disk doped EDVAC electrical electromechanical electronic emitter ENIAC functions germanium hobbyist Hollerith Homebrew Howard Aiken IMSAI's inch input instructions integrated circuit Intel Jobs keyboard Konrad Zuse later layer Leibniz light liquid crystal liquid crystal display logic gates machine manufacturing mathematical mathematician Mauchly and Eckert metal microcomputer microprocessor MITS monitor Neumann number system on-off operation output pattern perform personal computer processor program counter pulses punched cards puter quartz crystal radio read-and-write memory relays Roberts semiconductor Sensor Shockley signals silicon dioxide speed Stibitz switch telephone tion transistor Turing vacuum tubes voltage wafer wires Wozniak zero