When it appeared on the first PC the 8-bit ISA bus ran at a modest 4.77MHz - the same speed as the processor. It was improved over the years, eventually becoming the Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), developed by a consortium made up of IBM's major competitors. Although these systems … [Read more...]
The Intel Advanced/ML motherboard, launched in 1996, was designed to solve issues of space and airflow that the Pentium II and AGP graphics cards … [Read More...]
PC monitors have come a long way since the 1980s, when huge, hot and noisy boxes sucked in gallons of air and layers of dust, and seared lime … [Read More...]
Each pixel of a screen image is displayed using a combination of three different colour signals: red, green and blue. The … [Read More...]