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Term Papers on Computers
The Modem
Number of words: 474 - Number of pages: 2.... ISDN (The Wave offered through
Rogers cable) or even as advanced as Satellite modem. Most people now have 14.4
or 28.8 baud modems (Baud is "Slang" for Baud Rate Per Second) the reason for
the increase in 14.4 and 28.8's is that they are cheap and fairly recent and
haven't gone out of date yet. There are two types of modem external and
external modems internal plugs into a 16 bit port inside your computer and
external connects through either a serial (mouse)port or a parallel
(printer)port most people like the external modems because they don't take up an
extr .....
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Censorship And The Internet
Number of words: 2210 - Number of pages: 9.... FTP site would be near impossible. Besides taking an ext raordinary amount of money and time, attempts to censor the Internet violate freedom of speech rights that are included in democratic constitutions and international laws.11 It would be a breach of the First Amendment. The Constitution of the United Stat es of America declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petiti .....
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So, How Does It Work? The Wankel Rotary Engine
Number of words: 758 - Number of pages: 3.... Engine", available from D and J Hobby and Academy (and undoubtedly others). There is also a .30 model Wankel engine from OS / Graupner.
Rotor, Eccentric Shaft, Peripheral Housing, and Ports
A Rotary Combustion Engine (RCE) as invented by Felix Wankel and developed with Walter Froede of NSU differs from a Piston Engine in four fundamental ways:
The RCE Rotor supercedes the piston engine's piston.
The RCE Eccentric Shaft [gloss] supercedes the piston engine's crankshaft and connecting rods.
The RCE Peripheral Housing [gloss] supercedes the piston engin .....
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Video Games: The High Tech Threat To Our Younger Generation
Number of words: 2673 - Number of pages: 10.... on the videogame industry. It is
a multi-million dollar business growing at 40 per cent a year from 1987 to 1993
(Palmeri 102). Tetzeli in his article "Videogames: Serious Fun" compares
videogames $ 6.5 billion--a--year business to the Hollywood film industry (110).
He continues to point out that two Japan based conglomerate have put about 64
million videogame machines in US households in total. In addition to that they
also produced and licenced for all their softwares for their machines (110).
Palmery estimates to produce and market a ful featured vi .....
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The Telephone
Number of words: 1495 - Number of pages: 6.... there are those
that hang on the wall, on the desk, etc.
THE HANDSET
No matter what kind of telephone you own, there has to be some device
that allows you to talk to and listen to. This device is called the handset. The
handset is usually made out of plastic and inside it are two main components:
the transmitter and the receiver.
THE TRANSMITTER
It is the job of the transmitter to turn the air pressure created by
your sound waves to electrical signals so they can be sent to the other
telephone. The waves hit a thin skin called the diaphragm that is physi .....
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Windows 95
Number of words: 569 - Number of pages: 3.... all you need do is click on the application's button on the task bar and
the appropriate window will come to the fore. According to Aley, "the most
gratifying, and overdue, improvement is Windows 95's tolerance for file names in
plain English" (29-30). Traditionally, users had to think of file names that
summed up their work in eight letters or less. This was a constant problem
because frequently a user would look at a list of files to retrieve and think
"now what did I save that as?". Those days are over. Windows 95 will let the
user save his or her work with .....
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Technological Literacy
Number of words: 10060 - Number of pages: 37.... are questions of significant and permanent social change seeping into every crevasse of our everyday work and private lives. Many of the issues that are being raised today, and which I will sketch out here, deal with abstract notions about the virtual and `real', about time and space, about `body-less' interactions and communities of learners, and so forth. I hope, however, that I have brought together the diversity of research, current debates and issues in a concrete way that helps adult literacy professionals to get a baseline familiarity with a range of compl .....
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The Evolution Of Apple - January 1976 To May 1995
Number of words: 1347 - Number of pages: 5.... board. It has no Product keyboard, case, sound or graphics. They
call it the Apple I. They form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool’s
Day and sold the Apple I board for $666.66 at the Home brew Computer Club
in Palo Alto, California.
In 1977 the Apple II is available to the general public. Fully assembled
and pretested, it includes 4K of standard memory, and comes equipped with
two game paddles and a demo cassette. The price is $1,298. Customers use
their own TV set as a monitor and store programs on audio cassette
recorders. Compare this price with c .....
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