Troubleshooting and Repairing PCs: Beyond the Basics (Tab Electronics Technician Library)

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Summary: best book of its kind on the shelf!
Review: a no-nonsense book replete with technical diagrams, this book answers most questions a person making hardware repairs would ever ask. i've loaned my copy out several times; each time, the borrower has asked where he could get a copy. amazon.com, of course!

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Summary: a good thing that paper can be recycled
Review: Keyboard debouncing circuits?? Very fundamental.Uh Hello? Keyboards stop working you throw them away. Starts talking about Electroluminescent displays(EL'S??, whatever?) in the second chapter, before memory/hard disk/ or motherboard is even mentioned. Oh and the pages on "light pen technology" were very intriguing. Check that mouse and now its time to rip out your UART! Hey, at least I know how to change the crystal now. The book does not have very good diagrams,just a bunch of generic flow charts that talk about who knows what? Granted, the book talks about old technology but if I were stuck with an older IBM PC that had a problem, I dont think I would want to be stuck with this book as an only resource. It will show you how to scan a flatbed document though!