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Chapter 1 Introduction Linda Null, Julia Lobur
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Figure 01.UN01: "Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living … more digital than the preceding one." CREDIT UPDATE NEEDED: Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Lab.
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Figure 01.F01: A Typical Computer Advertisement -
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Table 01.T01: Common Prefixes Associated with Computer Organizations and Architecture -
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Figure 01.UN02: Photo of mother board with labeled components. labeled diagram of Acer E360 Socket 939 motherboard by Foxconn. Moxfyre at en.wikipedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0; Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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Figure 01.UN03: A Disassembled Tablet Computer Courtesy of Julia Lobur
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Figure 01.UN04: The Mechanical Turk Reprinted from Robert Willis, An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Kempelen. JK Booth, London. 1824.
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Figure 01.UN05: A poster showing a photograph of the army's ENIAC computer. U.S. Army, 1946
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Figure 01.UN06: Illustration of a vacuum tube, with plate, control grid, cathode, and envelope labeled. -
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Figure 01.UN07: Illustration of a rectifier, an electronic valve. -
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Figure 01.UN08: Negative charge on a cathode and control grid; positive on anode: Electrons stay near cathode -
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Figure 01.UN09: Negative charge on cathode; positive on control grid and anode: Electrons travel from cathode to anode -
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Figure 01.UN10: Illustration of a triode with labeled parts. -
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Figure 01.UN11: Illustration showing a diode, triode, tetrode, and pentode. -
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Figure 01.UN12: Illustration of two fingers holding a transistor. -
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Figure 01.UN13: Illustration showing the division of the emitter, base, and collector. -
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Figure 01.UN14: Illustration showing the process in which the electron source is taken, a few electrons are added and withdrawn, and a large current output results. -
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Figure 01.UN15: Illustration showing the position of the emitter and contacts. -
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Figure 01.F02: Comparison of Computer Components. Clockwise, starting from the top: 1) Vacuum Tube 2) Transistor 3) Chip containing 3200 2-input NAND gates 4) Integrated circuit package (the small silver square in the lower left-hand corner is an integrated circuit) Courtesy of Linda Null
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Figure 01.F03: The Abstract Levels of Modern Computing Systems -
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Figure 01.F04: Levels of Computing as a Service -
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Figure 01.F05: The von Neumann Architecture -
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Figure 01.F06: The Modified von Neumann Architecture, Adding a System Bus -
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