COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 3200

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COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 3200

• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• By. Richard Kelly and Chad Cannning

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Mother Board

• The mother board is the main circuit of a
  computer.
• This board holds a 486 SX processor chip.
• Is where the daughter boards get the electrify
  to perform their tasks.
• Made of plastic board
• Contains chips which form the main electronic
  circuits of the computer.

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Ram Chips

• Programs are temporally stored in ram
• Ram chips in older computer come in banks
• The top four ram chips belong to bank 1 and the
  other four belong to bank 0
• There are two types of ram
• Dynamic RAM
• Static RAM

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Daughter Boards

• Daughter boards plug into the mother board.
• Two boards which a system must have are
• Video Card
• Controller Card
• Some other cards which are not needed but are
  desired
• Sound Card
• Modem or Network Card

• Daughter boards can be used to upgrade or
  customize a system
• Many daughter boards are now being replaced with
  on board cards such as
• Controller card
• Sound Card
• Video Card
• Modem

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Sound Card

• Responsible for sending sound to the computer
  speakers.
• This sound card is a Sound Blaster 16 MCD ASP
• Comes with CD-ROM Interfaces
• Upgradable to Wave Blaster II
• Connectors
• Line I/O
• Mic-In
• Speaker-I/O
• joystick/game pad port
• Audio-In
• Wave Blaster daughter board connector

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Sound Blaster 16 Parts (2230)
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Power Supply

• Supplies power to computer components such as
• CD-Rom
• Floppy Drive
• Mother Board
• Has a protective housing which is used to prevent
  accidents.
• Has a built in fan to keep the power supply
  cool.

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CD-ROM Drive

• Works much the same as an hard drive.
• Instead of an arm head a laser is used.
• The disk spins at high speeds.
• This CD-ROM is 1 spin.
• There are now 52x CD-ROMS
• Can hold up to 800 mega bytes.

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Hard Drive

• Invited in the 1950s.
• They where first as big as 20 inchs in diameter
  and could only hold a few megabytes.
• A typical system today will have a hard drive
  that can hold 2 to 8 gigabytes.

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Inside of a Hard Drive

• Has three platters and three read/write heads.
• Platters are very smooth and durable.
• A typical hard platter moves at 3,600 or 7,200
  RPM.
• The arms are very light and fast and can move
  back and forth 50 times per second.

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Floppy Drives

• A floppy also works much the same as a hard drive
• It has an magnitic coating same as a hard drive
  were data is stored
• The two types of floppy drives are
• 5 1\4
• 3 1\2
• 5 HD 1\4 can only hold 720 kb max
• 3 ½ HD disk can hold 1.44

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Video and controller card

• Video and controller card are built together.
• Has four ram chips that hold 256 kilobytes.
• The four chips together make up 1 meg.
• Storage devices such as CD-ROM drive and hard
  drive connect to this controller card to
  communicate to the computer.

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Ribbon Cable

• This is a ribbon cable. It is used to transfer
  data from storage devices such as a CD-ROM or
  hard drive.

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Mouse

• A mouse is a hardware device which allows the
  user to control a cursor to manipulate data
  without complicated commands. The mouse or mice
  was invented by Douglas Englebart in 1963.

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Mouse Parts
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Mouse Parts (cont)
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Keyboard

• This is a keyboard. A keyboard is an input
  device. Without a keyboard it would be next to
  imposable to tell the computer what is required.

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Monitor

• A monitor is a output device. It is used to
  display what the computer is doing with aid of an
  video card. It is similar to TV screen.

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Bibliography

• http//www.suite101.com/article.cfm/computer_works
  /18483
• http//www.creativelabs.com
• http//www.intel.com
• Computer Works
• Encarta
• http//www.howstuffworks.com/search/index.htm