D103 wrote:
> Also, I have yet to finish high-school so my knowledge of computers and how they
> work is somewhat limited.

Back in high school I found in the library a wonderful text. It was a huge 
hardback book about 3 or 4 cm thick.  It started with vacuum tubes, tube 
diodes and triodes, then went into semiconductor tech, including what a 
semiconductor *is*, how the doping affects its behavior, how a diode works, 
an LED, a transistor, a thermistor, etc. Then into chips, how to make 
transistors on a chip, how the doping is done, then gates from that.

I wish so much I remembered what that book is called. It taught me 90% of 
what I know about hardware.

After that, the SAM'S book on the 8080 pretty much taught me the basics of 
computer architecture, instruction sets, etc.

It's a shame in some ways that everything has gotten so complicated that you 
wind up with either a quantum physics textbook or a "Teach Yourself 
Microsoft Word in 24 hours" sort of book, and nothing really in between that 
I know of.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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