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Internet Resources

The following are some helpful links to be used during your tenure in the CSCI 2150 course. Throughout the semester, new links will be added. If you have an idea for a link to add here, please e-mail me.

Administrative Stuff

E-mail list: All of our communication will be through the D2L Server. In addition, I will be posting grades on D2L. You can log-on by clicking here.

Intro to numbers

We will introduce some number theory by looking at early computing devices such as Blaise Pascal's calculator. It is interesting to note how much it functioned like a combination of an old rotary phone and a mechanical automotive odometer.

Binary Representation

Here is a link to the binary to decimal Flash ap I put together for this class.
Howtoons has a little comic strip that shows counting in binary on your hand.

Logic Operations

Here is the link to Rocky's Boots that was mentioned in the morning class. Thanks, Andrew!

Bitwise Operations

For Visual Basic users who are interested in the application of bitwise operations to their code, Logical Expressions, Inc. has a nice little article that might help.

Motherboard

Here is a link to Dell's description of how to access the internals of the GX260

Memory

Here is a sample memory hierarchy.
Here is a link to an informal discussion of early core memory.
A user (jimhwy) posted some nice pictures of core memory on the PBase.com photo sharing site.
This is a quick Excel demonstration I put together of how a simple 8x8 memory decoder might work.

Hard Drives

Image of an old RLL controller card (pre-ATA) from Howard81.co.uk
1956 IBM 5MB hard drive for their 305 RAMAC System.
Here is a link to the worksheet that I use during our hard drive encoding discussion in class.

Error Detection and Correction

This is a quick Excel demonstration I put together showing the differences between different error checking schemes.

Serial Protocols

Here is a link to the worksheet that I use during our serial protocols discussion in class.

Assembly Language

A command line disassembler created by Sang Cho (sangcho chongju.ac.kr) that can be used to take executable code and produce the assembly language files that created them.

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