Taking the Hardware Tutorial

Introduction.

This tutorial will provide you with information to provide a "very basic", non-technical, understanding of a PC and its components.

  • THIS VERSION IS FOR REVIEW AND COMMENTS ON THE APPROACH I AM TAKING. THE CONTENTS WILL BE CHANGING DAILY AS I HAVE TIME. The date of the last version is on the title line at the top of the screen.

  • You can select items from the menu at the left at any time, by clicking on the topic you desire. Normally, any text in "blue" or "purple" will be a topic you can see by clicking on it.

  • You can take this course over the network. It will be somewhat slow loading all files and graphics over the Internet. So, we suggest you see the downloading item in the menu.

  • We cannot control such things as your fonts and colors on your PC, but there are the "Font Keys" on your browser's "tool bar" that sometime allow you to control your font size to a degree. Click on the smaller character if you have something like this:

    or it may look like this which you may have to click several times to reduce to the smallest font size:

  • You can move around the course using the hot-spots by clicking on items that are high-lighted (blue or purple), or you can click on the arrow keys in the menu bar to go to the last location or topic you were in before you clicked the last topic.

  • You can enlarge the size of your viewing area by clicking on the "up pointing" arrow in the upper right corner of your browser window.

  • PRINTING TOPICS: You can print each topic if you desire. Simply click on the "File" item in the menu bar across the top of your screen, then click on "Print" in the drop-down menu.

  • You can download the files to your PC if you have 1.5 MB hard disk space available. We suggest you download the course. It will run much faster.

    NOTE: This course is still in development. It will be updated periodically, and the new files will be available to you. All current lessons are not completed, and the exams are still in development as of 19 Mar 97.

    We recommend that you download the course each month to get current updates.

    COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Send to Mr. Shuler

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