Foreword by Doron Swade
How Britain has led the way
Impact on leisure
Impact on work
Women and Computing
Hardware developments
Software developments
Significant Individuals
Why we conserve older computer systems
Colossus
WITCH
IBM 1130
Elliott 803
Elliott 903
ICL Mainframe
PDP-8
BBC Domesday system
ACORN computers
Home computers
Manchester 'Baby' Computer
A world of computers
How to build a computer
Code breaking
Smaller and faster
Who and how many?
Computers and Music
Computers and Art
Computers and Shopping
Computers and Medicine
Control and Data Logging
Computer automation
Computer gaming
Getting connected
Further Teaching Activities
Inside a computer system
Data flow
Inputs and outputs
Process
Storage
Interaction
How computers add
Rules of Logic
Types of logic gates
Inside the Computer
The Human CPU
How do computers represent text
Internet and email
Image:
CPU Heatsink Fan
Computers are made up of a number of different component parts, that work together to allow data to flow around the system.
Each part is dependent on the other elements of the system, but which component performs what task?
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