Chapter 1. Introduction to the Personal Computer

Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

Image What is a computer system?

Image How can I identify the names, purposes, and characteristics of cases and power supplies?

Image What are the names, purposes, and characteristics of internal PC components?

Image What are ...

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