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CPU, Intel, VDU, server, Megabyte, MHz, monitor, DVD...Forget the techical jargon. This is a concise and down-to-earth guide that will help you become computer literate - in your own time and on your own terms. You can do it. Beginning with the basics, The Beginner's Guide to Computers explains, in your language, the useful terms and shortcuts that will enable you to use a computer with confidence and competence. Includes everything you need to know to benefit from the Internet and e-mail and to get it working for you.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Computers and the Internet
First published in 2002 This 2nd edition published in 2004 This edition copyright © Susan Holden and Matthew Francis, 2004 Microsoft ® and Windows ® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are acknowledged as belonging to their respective companies. The right of Susan Holden and Matthew Francis to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Condition of Sale This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher. Summersdale Publishers Ltd 46 West Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1RP UK www.summersdale.com Printed and bound in Great Britain ISBN 1 84024 396 1
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