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Author Charles Petzold Pages 400 Disk N/A Level All Levels Published 09/29/1999 ISBN 9780735605053 ISBN-10 0-7356-0505-X Price(USD) $27.99 To see this book's discounted price, select a reseller below.	More Information About the Book Table of Contents Sample Chapter Index Related Series Related Books About the Author Support: Book & CD Rate this book

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Best Friends
Chapter 2	Codes and Combinations
Chapter 3	Braille and Binary Codes
Chapter 4	Anatomy of a Flashlight
Chapter 5	Seeing Around Corners
Chapter 6	Telegraphs and Relays
Chapter 7	Our Ten Digits
Chapter 8	Alternatives to 10
Chapter 9	Bit by Bit by Bit
Chapter 10	Logic and Switches
Chapter 11	Gates (Not Bill)
Chapter 12	A Binary Adding Machine
Chapter 13	But What About Subtraction?
Chapter 14	Feedback and Flip-Flops
Chapter 15	Bytes and Hex
Chapter 16	An Assemblage of Memory
Chapter 17	Automation
Chapter 18	From Abaci to Chips
Chapter 19	Two Classic Microprocessors
Chapter 20	ASCII and a Cast of Characters
Chapter 21	Get on the Bus
Chapter 22	The Operating System
Chapter 23	Fixed Point, Floating Point
Chapter 24	Languages High and Low
Chapter 25	The Blossoming