CSC231 PC-demolition Lab

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This lab requires you to write a report. The report is due 9/17/10 at 11:59 p.m. + 1 minute. The report has to be a Wiki page, which should be accessible from here.


Setup

  • Take apart an old PC, disassemble it completely, and identify all the parts...

Photos

  • Below is a list of photos taken during the lab (Thanks Rebecca!)

Computer open.jpg Fan.jpg Harddrive.jpg Motherboard.jpg Network card.jpg Network card inside.jpg Ribbon cable.jpg Zip drive.jpg Zip drive 2.jpg

(Note that some of them are not rotated and could benefit from a 90-degree rotation left or right. Please do so before using the photo in your report!)
  • more photos can be found here
  • Amy's photos:

P 00144.jpg P 00145.jpg P 00147.jpg P 00149.jpg P 00150.jpg P 00151.jpg P 00152.jpg P 00153.jpg P 00155.jpg P 00156.jpg P 00157.jpg

Lab Report

  • Create a wiki page (demonstrated during lecture of 9/10/10) linked to your name. The main URL for the student wiki page is http://cs.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/CSC231_Page_(2010)
  • Your wiki should have your name (or first name, if you prefer not to have your last name on world wide available pages, that's fine with me).
  • The class number (CSC231)
  • The date
  • a paragraph describing the goal for the lab, and including a description of the type of computer we took apart (PC, Mac, laptop?).
  • Make sure you document the main players for our class this semester: the processor and the memory! Because these are important, feel free to describe them more at length.
  • A list of all the parts that were identified and/or removed. Each item should have a picture, and a paragraph (up to 5 lines) describing its function in a computer.
  • PLEASE: whenever you create a new page, or upload a new picture not already in the wiki, please prefix it with "CSC231_xxx" where xxx are your initials or a unique Id of yours. The reason is that if somebody uploads a photo and calls it processor.jpg and somebody decides to upload another photo and calls it with the same name, the second photo will "overwrite" the first one in all pages.
  • If there is a part which we identified but for which there is no photo available here, use one from the Web.
  • If you include photos from other Web sites, make sure you create links and references to the outside URLs.
  • Feel free to format the wiki page with more sophisticated features than we saw in class.
  • Put this mediawiki tag at the end of your page:
    [[Category:CSC231]]
    . This way your page will appear in the CSC231 category page. It's an easy way to find pages related to a common subject.

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