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  1-9 of 9 Reviews about "Ibm Pc (C.5.3...)": Date Reviewed
  Personal computer operation and troubleshooting (2nd ed.)
Kersey R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996.  Type: Book (9780136563808)

This text, intended for technical college students and technicians, begins with a short history of the PC’s development, from the original PC to the Pentium. Subsequent chapters examine each of the microprocessor upgrades to ...

Sep 1 1997
  Upgrading PCs made easy
Aaron B., Aaron A., Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, CA, 1991.  Type: Book (9780078816529)

Most of the items the authors offer as upgradable are pieces of the PC that are necessary for its operation or devices that will improve its current operation. The equipment discussed includes the power supply, additional RAM, floppy a...

Jul 1 1992
  PC principles
Forst G., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.  Type: Book (9780262061346)

Forst’s broad overview of the technical details of the IBM PC family includes clones and 386-based computers. It covers both hardware and system software (such as DOS), although the treatment is slightly heavier on the hardwa...

Dec 1 1991
  Personal computer operation and troubleshooting
Kersey R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780136574958)

The author indicates that this book may be used in a college or technical school and requires a fundamental knowledge of basic, solid state, and digital electronics. He does not mention the need for a multimeter and an oscilloscope to ...

Aug 1 1990
  The 8088 microprocessor: programming, interfacing, software, hardware, and applications
Singh A., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780132475372)

This book focuses on the Intel 8088 8-bit microprocessor and the (8088-based) IBM PC. It describes the software and hardware characteristics of the 8088 (including those of its associated support chips) and teaches the reader how to pr...

Mar 1 1990
  Communicating with the IBM PC series: concepts, hardware, software, networking
Held G., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780471916673)

This book focuses on the application of data communications theory to the IBM PC and compatible devices. The book includes explanations of communications concepts and software and hardware compatible with PC-type devices. Its strength ...

Feb 1 1990
  The new Peter Norton programmer’s guide to the IBM PC and PS/2
Norton P., Wilton R., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789781556151316)

This book is intended not to teach the reader how to program the IBM PC family of microcomputers in any particular language, but to help the application programmer master the principles specific to those computers. It focuses on the so...

Dec 1 1989
  Problem solving using IBM PC Pascal
Harrow K. (ed), Jones J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780137213580)

The title of a book should indicate its contents. If “problem-solving” appears in the title, then the process of problem-solving should be an integral part of the text. Authors of introductory textbooks too often us...

Jun 1 1989
  Using the IBM PC: organization and assembly language programming
Franklin M., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Austin, TX, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780030628627)

The author indicates in the Preface that this text may be used in a formal setting for a course in introductory assembly language, or as a self-study guide. In a formal course setting, the instructor would have to supplement the materi...

Dec 1 1986
 
 
 
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