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Author Charles Petzold Pages 400 Disk N/A Level All Levels Published 10/11/2000 ISBN 9780735611313 Price $17.99 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

Preface	iv
Chapter 1 Best Friends	3
Chapter 2 Codes and Combinations	9
Chapter 3 Braille and Binary Codes	15
Chapter 4 Anatomy of a Flashlight	22
Chapter 5 Seeing Around Corners	32
Chapter 6 Telegraphs and Relays	40
Chapter 7 Our Ten Digits	47
Chapter 8 Alternatives to 10	54
Chapter 9 Bit by Bit by Bit	69
Chapter 10 Logic and Switches	86
Chapter 11 Gates (Not Bill)	102
Chapter 12 A Binary Adding Machine	131
Chapter 13 But What About Subtraction?	143
Chapter 14 Feedback and Flip-Flops	155
Chapter 15 Bytes and Hex	180
Chapter 16 An Assemblage of Memory	190
Chapter 17 Automation	206
Chapter 18 From Abaci to Chips	238
Chapter 19 Two Classic Microprocessors	260
Chapter 20 ASCII and a Cast of Characters	286
Chapter 21 Get on the Bus	301
Chapter 22 The Operating System	320
Chapter 23 Fixed Point, Floating Point	335
Chapter 24 Languages High and Low	349
Chapter 25 The Blossoming	365
Acknowledgment	383
Index	385