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Easy How does the keyboard interface work? by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| The IBM keyboard is connected to the desktop through a serial interface similar to a COM port. When you press a key, the keyboard sends a "scan-code" for that key to the desktop. When you release the key, the keyboard sends a release code to the desktop. If you hold down one key and press and rel... |
| Published: Friday 24 April, 2009 |
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Easy The Best desktop Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| Say goodbye to the mouse and hello to augmented reality, voice recognition, and geospatial tracking |
| Published: Friday 24 April, 2009 |
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Easy OCZ NIA Brain-desktop Interface by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| While game controllers come in all shapes, sizes and colors, the input technologies they feature are surprisingly universal. Nearly all game controllers receive some or all of their input from various switches of some type. More advanced controllers may also incorporate analog sticks, throttle wheel... |
| Published: Friday 24 April, 2009 |
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Easy Expanding and Extending USB by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| Expanding allows devices to be shared, split and accessed by more than one desktop or enabling a desktop to connect to multiple USB devices at the same time. Expanding overcomes the problems of the limited number of USB ports often supplied with modern computers, especially smaller laptops and net... |
| Published: Tuesday 14 April, 2009 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 1 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| The PC's adaptability - its ability to evolve many different interfaces allowing the connection of many different classes of add-on component and peripheral device - has been one of the key reasons for its success. In essence, a modern PC system of today is little different to IBM's original design ... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 10 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| Today's huge databases and data intensive applications demand incredible amounts of storage, and transferring massive blocks of information requires technology that is robust, reliable and scaleable. Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) is an IBM-developed interface for connecting storage devices, stor... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 11 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| Developed jointly by Compaq, Digital, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Northern Telecom, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard offers a new standardised connector for attaching all the common I/O devices to a single port, simplifying today's multiplicity of ports and connectors. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 12 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| Also widely referred to as FireWire, IEEE 1394 was approved by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1995. Originally conceived by Apple, who currently receives $1 royalty per port, several leading IT companies - including Microsoft, Philips, National Semiconductor and Texa... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 13 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| While USB was originally designed to replace legacy serial and parallel connections, notwithstanding the claims that they were complementary technologies, there can be little doubt that USB 2.0 specification was designed to compete with FireWire. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Easy Interfaces - part 14 by Web Hosting Easy |
Topic: Interfaces |
| In early 2001 the battle between IEEE 1394 and USB advanced another step with the 1394 Trade Association\'s approval of specifications for a faster version of IEEE 1394, called IEEE 1394b. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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