The following slides introduce the major components of a computer system.

Slide 2.1: Three kinds of computers
Slide 2.2: Three kinds of computers (cont.)
Slide 2.3: Levels of abstraction
Slide 2.4: Computer organization (video: 5:11 minutes)
Slide 2.5: Computer mice
Slide 2.6: Computer monitors
Slide 2.7: Computer monitors (cont.)
Slide 2.8: Opening the box (video: 6:27 minutes)
Slide 2.9: Central processing units (CPUs)
Slide 2.10: Memory
Slide 2.11: Random access memory (RAM) (video: 5:04 minutes)
Slide 2.12: Secondary storage
Slide 2.13: Hard disk drives (HDDs) (video: 5:12 minutes)
Slide 2.14: A hard disk structure
Slide 2.15: Flash memory
Slide 2.16: Solid-state drives (SSDs)
Slide 2.17: Cloud storage
Slide 2.18: Summary of the secondary storage
Slide 2.19: Communicating with other computers
Slide 2.20: Communicating with other computers (cont.) (video: 3:26 minutes)
Slide 2.21: Technologies for building processors and memory
Slide 2.22: Chip manufacturing process (video: 5:35 minutes)
Slide 2.23: Chip manufacturing process (cont.)







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