Make friends with your PC, 64 pages by Johann-Christian Hanke

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• Welcome - Don’t panic - Once upon a time - a little computer story - Mechanical solutions - The electronic computer - IBM & Co. - The journey to the moon - ‘User friendly’ computers - Computers get personal - DOS computers - The Apple PC - Summary
• Round the PC - All computers are grey in the dark - The base of it all – the cabinet - Monitor, keyboard & co. - Diskettes (floppy disks) and CD-ROM - Of mice and men
• A peek beneath the bonnet - But who makes all that noise? - Motherboard - Good cards for all purposes - The chip which works it all out - Sending documents to storage - RAM – you can never have enough - Bits and bytes - Take the bus to BIOS
• Software - not so hard! - Computers are stupid - The operating system – full throttle - DOS – what on earth is that? - Ready, steady, command line! - Windows with coloured symbols - OS/2, a better operating system - Unix for the Net - Mac OS - Novell Netware and Windows NT - Driver – a kind of mini-program - File types and organisation - Document files - Program files - Trees which grow down into the ground
• Windows 95 - A window on the world - Something borrowed… - Start with Start - The great Windows comparison - Lighting Windows course - Starting a program - The behaviour of the common window - Save - Closing a window - From desktop to Recycle bin - Out and explore with Explorer
• The PC as a typewriter - A little keyboard abc - Delete, paste, move - The final touches - DTP on a PC
• Calculating in tables - Numbers in cells - Sales tax and averages
• Mouse drawings - Drawing with vectors - Everyone a van Gogh – painting programs
• The data-base as information container - You have won. - Filtering data
• Music on your PC - It is the card which makes the noise - Composing without notes - Soundblaster
• Check-mate, but who? - Strategy and adventure - Shoot’em ups - Dexterity and reactions - Jump’n’Run - Simulation games - How much hardware do you need? - To steal or not to steal…
• Multimedia and other fashions - Moving images and music - Guaranteed fun - Multimedia PCs
• Everybody’s talking about it, the Internet - A word wide spiders web - E-Mail – express post! - Surfing along the three big W’s - Home, sweet home – my own home-page
• me too, I want a PC! - Which computer is my type?
• Lots of lovely programs! - What you get for your money – A licence to work - OEM or ‘how to get cheap software’ - Nearly free – pirate software - Shareware – test before you buy - Freeware and Public Domain - Good and cheap - Brand names? - Be careful – all is not what it seems!
• My PC is ill - What is a Virus? - PC workshops – expensive and not so good
• A little about ergonomics - Are you sitting comfortably? - What resolution? - ‘Nerd-talk’ – a little PC encyclopaedia