... need to buy a case that's P4 ready. Ask a salesman in the store, they will help you pick out the perfect case. Now the case is just an empty box with a power supply, that's all it is. Once you buy that, then its time to start putting computer parts in it. The next thing you need to buy is ... what you want right in any computer store. They also plug in the same way a hard drive does, very simple stuff. The last few things you need for your new computer is a video card, sound card, network card, or if your still on 56k dial up then you need a modem. The video card doesn't have to be ... ...

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... of my life. Growing up, I always had a passion for electronics. Oh how it drove my parents nuts. I remember many occasions where I destroyed their new VCR just to see how it worked and there was very few times I was able to put the things back together and they worked properly. That passion for ... early 90's, the technology boom was amazing. Everything was changing so fast it was impossible to keep up. Shortly after I got my first computer, the new buzz word was the "Internet". Most people didn't know what the Internet was or anything about personal computers. I began playing with the i...

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... not a day that goes by without some forms of technology being discovered. In fact, computers and technology are now part of our daily lives. New technologies have always allowed us to do things faster, more efficiently, and more professionally than ever before. For instance, the creation of motorized vehicles ... in medicine cure the sick and thus lowering the death rate; the invention of television gives people entertainment that colors their dull lives. Generally, every new technology is a step forward for speed and productivity. Recently, with the great invention of the Internet, the...

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... visionary Steve modify communication methods and the industry to the extreme that had changed the world forever. Steve Jobs saw technology like nobody else did before, thinking out of the box was his key to success. Jobs was an innovator on his actions and thinking, due he never did something just because it was done the day before. His ideas of ... , his own company, but instead of falling down and give up, he devoted all his time and energy to develop new ideas such as the Macintosh project. Jobs visualized the Macintosh project as his opportunity to reach the masses, with this new ide...

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... for manufacturers to produce motherboard designs. The ATX had a maximum size of 12" x 9.6" and looked like a Baby AT board rotated 90 degrees. The board has a special design to accommodate the new, larger Pentium processors. Western Digital came up with the design for LPX(Low Profile Extended) motherboard in 1986 for corporate use. It made it possible to reduce space and costs ... , and soon lead to the creation of the slim-line "pizza box" style case which was meant to fit underneath a typical monitor. Expansion slots on the LPX style motherboard, were not built into the board itself, t...

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... the servers are connected. A star architecture offers the most flexibility. If more net connections are needed, we could just add another switch or hub close to the location of the new PCs. In each room I will run a star topology linking to a hub and from each hub I will have a fibre optic backbone cable running to the server so information will run quickly ... quality. To print on another printer in a non-networked situation, you have two options. First, you could disconnect your printer and the printer you wish to use and install the new printer to your computer. Second, you could cop...

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