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Click&Learn.Contents.WWW.MKDATA.DK
Now 205 pages of course material for self study or remote\ue000 instruction. It would be to your advantage to print

these pages. Click on the right hand frame, before you enter the print command. Welcome to the Click & Learn course. Used by schools teaching IT.\ue000 Designed in several modules, some of which are sub divided, to facilitate reading. Please remember the guest book.

\ue0000. About Michael Karbo and his books. Publishers
(English language) wanted! Please read:\ue000
Introduction to these pages.\ue000
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News - about Click & Learn progress
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Aabenraa - where I live.
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US publishers wanted.
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Search inside Click & Learn
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1. About PC data:\ue000
Module 1a. About data (6 pages)
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Module 1b. Character tables (8 pages)
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2. The PC system board. About busses, chip sets, RAM,
etc.:\ue000
Module 2a. Introduction to the PC (11 pages)
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Module 2b. Boot process, system bus (6 pages)
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Module 2c. I/O busses, ISA bus (7 pages)
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Module 2d. Chip sets (6 pages)
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Module 2e. RAM (6 pages)
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3. About CPU's:\ue000
Module 3a. CPU (6 pages)
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Module 3b. CPU improvements (6 pages)
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Module 3c. CPU 5th & 6th generation (15
pages)\ue000
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Module 3d. Over clocking the CPU's (9 pages)
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4. About drives and other storage media:\ue000
Module 4a. Drives (4 pages)
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Module 4b. Hard disks (9 pages)
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Module 4c. Optic storage media (7
pages)\ue000
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Module 4d. MO and ZIP drives (2 pages)
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Module 4e. Tape streamers (2 pages)
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5. About expansion cards and interfaces:\ue000
Module 5a.\ue000 Adapters and expansion
cards (16 pages)
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Module 5b.\ue000 About interfaces: EIDE,
Ultra DMA and AGP (5 pages)
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Module 5c.\ue000 SCSI, FireWire and USB (8
pages)
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6. About operating and file systems:\ue000
Module 6a. File systems (18 pages)
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Module 6b. Running and maintaining
Windows 95 (4 pages)
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Module 6c. Relationship between
operating system and hardware (BIOS,
driver programs, etc. 10 pages)\ue000
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7. Graphics:\ue000
Module 7a. 16 pages about the screen
(pixels, resolutions, colors depth,
refresh-rates).
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Module 7b. The monitor and the
graphics card. (12 pages)
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Module 7c. About sound (9 pages)
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Miscellaneous\ue000\ue000\ue000\ue000\ue000
Links to other web sites.\ue000
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A complete illustrated Guide to the PC Hardware
file:///E|/education/Click & Learn/start.htm (1 of 2) [4/15/1999 6:12:24 AM]
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See the guest book
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Last revised: 7 Jun 1998. Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998 by Michael B. Karbo. WWW.MKDATA.DK.
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Click& L e a rn.Module 1a.WWW.MKDATA.DK
About data

Our PC's are data processors. PC's function is simple: to process data, and the processing is done electronically inside
the CPU and between the other components. That sounds simple, butwhat are data, andhow are they processed
electronically in a PC? That is the subject of these pages.

Analog data

The signals, which we send each other to communicate, are data. Our daily data have many forms: sound, letters,
numbers, and other characters (handwritten or printed), photos, graphics, film. All these data are in their natureanalog,
which means that they are varied in their type. In this form, they are unusable in a PC. The PC can only process
concise, simple data formats. Such data can be processed very effectively.

Digital data

The PC is an electric unit. Therefore, it can only deal with data, which are associated with electricity. That is
accomplished using electric switches, which are either off or on. You can compare with regular household switches. If
the switch if off, the PC reads numeral 0. If it is on, it is read as numeral one. See the illustration below:

With our electric switches, we can write 0 or 1. We can now start our data processing!
The PC is filled with these switches (in the form of transistors). There are literally millions of those in the electronic
components. Each represents either a 0 or a 1, so we can process data with millions of 0's and 1's.
Bits
Click & Learn. Module 1a. About data.
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