Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Installing the Motherboard, CPU, Heat Sink, Fan and RAM
Now that we have chosen the components for building our computer, we will now go through the steps for putting it all together. Some steps have been covered in previous Tech Tips; such as installing the graphics card, power supply unit, CD/DVD drive and sound card, so we will not go into those again.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
An Insanely Great Thirty Years of Innovation - A Brief History of Apple Computers
One fine day in 1976, 21 year old Steve Jobs quit his day job at Atari and convinced computer engineer Steve “Woz” Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard. Together, in the garage of Jobs’ Cupertino, CA home, they founded a new company which they christened “Apple”. Their goal - create an inexpensive and simple to use computer. On April Fool’s Day in 1976, they introduced their first system, an encased circuit board known as the Apple I (previous computers consisted of circuit boards and switches which produced flashing lights) and sold for $666.66 at the local electronics store. By the time the Apple II and the Mac rolled around, Jobs and Woz had popularized the personal computing revolution, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
How to Build a Computer - Part 5: Choosing Computer Components
Note: This is part five of a multipart series on choosing the components for and building your own computer.
This is the fifth and final portion of the series covering choosing the components for your computer. So far in the series, we have covered every item in the list below that is italicized. As always, the items with an asterisk beside them are optional, depending on your computer set up.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
How to Build a Computer - Part 4: Choosing Computer Components
Note: This is part four of a multipart series on choosing the components for and building a computer.
This week, we are continuing our series on how to build a computer with choosing the best components for your custom computer system. So far in the series, we have covered the components shown in italics below. Today, we will cover the cables and cards shown in bold.
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