<p>Bits, bytes, logic, RAM, CPUs, hard drives and SSD drives. Master the geeky acronyms and simplify computer hardware & terminology with ease. This book is great for beginners or a basic computing class.</p><p>Exploring Computer Hardware looks at:</p><ul><li>The microcomputer, mainframes and super computers</li><li>Hardware components</li><li>CPU architecture, instructions sets, and the fetch execute cycle</li><li>Computer ports and plugs</li><li>Network topologies, LANs, WANs, MANs, fibre optics and ethernet</li><li>WiFi and Cellular networks</li><li>The internet: email, the cloud, the world-wide web</li><li>IP Addressing, web servers, DNS servers and DHCP servers</li><li>TCP/IP model, OSI model, ports, sockets</li><li>Logic gates, binary arithmetic, two''s complement, floating point, hexadecimal, and base conversions</li><li>Data Storage: bits, bytes, kilo bytes, kibi bytes, megabytes...</li><li>Data compression, encryption, sort, and search algorithms, and more</li></ul><p>Tech