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Welcome - Don’t panic - Once upon a time - a little computer story -
Mechanical solutions - The electronic computer - IBM & Co. - The journey
to the moon - ‘User friendly’ computers - Computers get personal - DOS
computers - The Apple PC - Summary
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Round the PC - All computers are grey in the dark - The base of it all
– the cabinet - Monitor, keyboard & co. - Diskettes (floppy disks) and
CD-ROM - Of mice and men
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A peek beneath the bonnet - But who makes all that noise? -
Motherboard - Good cards for all purposes - The chip which works it all
out - Sending documents to storage - RAM – you can never have enough -
Bits and bytes - Take the bus to BIOS
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Software - not so hard! - Computers are stupid - The operating system
– full throttle - DOS – what on earth is that? - Ready, steady, command
line! - Windows with coloured symbols - OS/2, a better operating system
- Unix for the Net - Mac OS - Novell Netware and Windows NT - Driver – a
kind of mini-program - File types and organisation - Document files -
Program files - Trees which grow down into the ground
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Windows 95 - A window on the world - Something borrowed… - Start with
Start - The great Windows comparison - Lighting Windows course -
Starting a program - The behaviour of the common window - Save - Closing
a window - From desktop to Recycle bin - Out and explore with Explorer
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The PC as a typewriter - A little keyboard abc - Delete, paste, move -
The final touches - DTP on a PC
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Calculating in tables - Numbers in cells - Sales tax and averages
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Mouse drawings - Drawing with vectors - Everyone a van Gogh – painting
programs
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The data-base as information container - You have won. - Filtering
data
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Music on your PC - It is the card which makes the noise - Composing
without notes - Soundblaster
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Check-mate, but who? - Strategy and adventure - Shoot’em ups -
Dexterity and reactions - Jump’n’Run - Simulation games - How much
hardware do you need? - To steal or not to steal…
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Multimedia and other fashions - Moving images and music - Guaranteed
fun - Multimedia PCs
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Everybody’s talking about it, the Internet - A word wide spiders web -
E-Mail – express post! - Surfing along the three big W’s - Home, sweet
home – my own home-page
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me too, I want a PC! - Which computer is my type?
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Lots of lovely programs! - What you get for your money – A licence to
work - OEM or ‘how to get cheap software’ - Nearly free – pirate
software - Shareware – test before you buy - Freeware and Public Domain
- Good and cheap - Brand names? - Be careful – all is not what it seems!
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My PC is ill - What is a Virus? - PC workshops – expensive and not so
good
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A little about ergonomics - Are you sitting comfortably? - What
resolution? - ‘Nerd-talk’ – a little PC encyclopaedia
