The motherboard and its role in personal computers
One of the most important components of your computer is the motherboard. However, her name…

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Goodbye personal computer?
In a large store of audio-video equipment, where he wandered for batteries, I watched the…

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How did Seymour Cray build supercomputers?
Elite customers bought the first supercomputers - the Atomic Energy Commission and the Weather Bureau.…

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How to choose an antivirus program?

Each computer user often wonders what kind of antivirus is better. The Internet has enough tips and solutions to this issue, but each person has his own opinion on this matter. After all, everyone praises the program that they use …

However, from time to time you still have to return to choosing the appropriate antivirus program. So, let’s figure out how to choose the right antivirus.

Installing more than one antivirus program on a computer To begin with, it is important to understand that installing more than one antivirus on a computer can lead to unstable operation of the system and Continue reading

Who invented the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination?

This year, personal computers turn 33 years old. And how many miracles for this short period created boxes, the necessity of which even their creators, IBM engineers doubted!

In the early 1980s, the company sold large computers (mainframes) to large customers: government, military, universities, research centers, large corporations. The orders were huge, the money from them went big. What is there to think about trifles, about some personal computers there! Is it possible to use them as smart terminals for mainframes? In 1975, the 5100 model computer was released, which was quite suitable for one person to work on it. It was a desktop, with a built-in black and white monitor, with a keyboard and a tape drive. A good candidate for personal computers, if not for the price – 20 thousand Continue reading

How does a computer affect a child?

How often, remembering our childhood, we catch ourselves thinking that at the present time life is becoming more intense, richer, more active. Particularly acute is the lack of time and the desire to embrace the immense.

What can we say about the babies, to whose share it fell to be born in this difficult time, when the very concept of childhood changes, displacing our usual idea of ​​it. A variety of information is streaming onto the younger generation, the loads in schools go off the scale, and now we see a situation when the kids are already beginning to learn the computer almost from the cradle. What is it? The requirements of modern life or something else? Let’s try to figure it out together. There are both followers and opponents of Continue reading

From Windows to Linux?
I have been repairing and maintaining computers for over 20 years. Started work at MSDOS.…

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Home mini server? Easy and convenient
Many people associate with the word "server" with a large expensive computer installed in a…

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Computer graphics. What is it?
Speaking in a dry scientific language, computer graphics (for brevity we will call it CG,…

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