Provides instructions on building and upgrading a PC, covering such topics as drives and connections, installing Windows, adding peripherals, working with video, and troubleshooting.

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Written by a team of experts and specialist contributors this comprehensive guide has proved to be an invaluable resource for professional designers and service engineers. Each chapter is written by a leading author, including Don Aldous, John Borwick, Dave Berriman and John Linsley Hood, which provides as wide a perspective as possible on high-quality sound reproduction as well as a wealth of expertise. This third edition has been fully updated to include modern valve amplifier designs, Nicam and satellite radio, and including a new section on servicing.Ian Sinclair has written over 140 books on aspects of electronics and computing and has been a regular contributor to the electronics and computing press. New chapters on valve amplifiers, in-car audio, NICAM and satellite radio, and servicingContributors include world experts like John Linsley Hood, Nick Beer, Don Aldous, Fred Mornington-WestA wide ranging guide for professionals and hobbyists alike (view table of contents)

Product Description: This Pocket Book aims to provide the service engineer with all the necessary information to carry out work on domestic electronics equipment. Packed full of data, tables of standard values, formulae and charts, this useful and portable little book will be both an essential reference for all those working in consumer electronics and a handy revision aid for students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Newnes Windows 98 Pocket Book is ideal for a wide range of readers; from the less experienced owner daunted by large software manuals, to those who have used earlier versions of Windows and want to get more out of their computers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you want to put together a PC, improve one you've already got, or particularly if you want to upgrade to a Multimedia PC, you need good advice from an expert. Thank goodness for Ian Sinclair. This book covers the construction of a PC, either form scratch or following the more common path of upgrading a low-cost machine, and it covers all grades of machine up to Multimedia level...read more

Product Description: This text deals with the two most popular level 3 options of digital techniques and microcomputer systems. The contents cover the requirements of C&G 2240 Part 3 in these topics, and also Microcomputer Systems Installation and Maintenance 3 (C&G 7261/344)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A small (3.75x7.75 ") handbook intended to help users get as much as possible from MS-DOS and the utilities that accompany it. Among other topics, it covers the basic commands used in all versions of DOS from 3.0 through 6.22; details the installation of MS-DOS, gives detailed information on batch files, and explains anti-virus software in both DOS and Windows versions...read more

Product Description: The principles involved when using a personal computer for linear circuit analysis and drawing are described in this beginner's guide to computer tools for electronic design. Using computer tools is now an essential skill for any electronics engineer...read more

Product Description: A revised and updated version of Audio Electronics Reference Book (BSP Professional Books, 1989), this volume presents a wide perspective of high quality sound reproduction, including reproduction under adverse circumstances (PA and in-car), from less conventional sources (such as synthesizers), and with regards to the whole technology from studio to ear...read more

Product Description: Book by Sinclair, Ian R.

Product Description: Looks at the latest version of the wordprocessing package - "WordPerfect for Windows".

Product Description: A marvelous little book that is well worth $39.95. (It is unfortunate that currency exchanges make British books so expensive.) Anyone interested in improving hard disk performance will benefit from this material. About one third of the book is devoted to hardware how a hard disk works and why; what controllers are; how various PCs and hard disks work together...read more

Product Description: With over 100 books in print, Ian Sinclair is probably the most prolific, and certainly one of the best, computer book authors in the world. His writing style is both down to earth and informative. However, $47.95 may be simply too much to pay for this first rate paperback...read more

Product Description: This book contains an enormous amount of extremely useful information in a compact, portable form. However, the author's style is stilted and pedantic. Long, convoluted sentences detract from the material. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: A complete, practical book on PC memory, covering static and dynamic RAM, ROM and CMOS RAM principles and practical installation of chips, SIMM and SIPP modules in addition to the software topics of memory management. The book also looks at configuration of the leading software packages...read more

Product Description: Following on from the core studies in Volume 2 Part 1, this volume covers the television and radio technology option as required by the new syllabus of C&G 2240 Part 2 and BTEC Level 2/3; certain topics are expanded to provide a bridge to the Part 3 syllabus...read more

Product Description: This is a pocket guide to the Windows 3 system manual which offers help concerning more advanced installation actions not covered in the manual, a set of tables describing permitted devices which is not available in the main manual, but only later in the program on the system discs, a reminder of the menu structure and a guide to add-ons...read more

A reference work for the electronics technician, featuring more than two thousand entries, provides in-depth explanations of every aspect of electronics theory and practice

Product Description: Passive components are here taken to include any component which is incapable of power amplification, rather than the narrower definition of resistors and capacitors only. This guide for students and practicing technicians is concerned with the main passive components their fundamental action, parameters, variation with temperature, tolerances, stability, reliability, and manufacturing methods and standards...read more