Sam’s Teach Yourself PCs in 24 Hours – Greg Perry

Designed to address the beginning PC purchaser’s first-time buying needs, this text tells readers how to interpret advertisements and other such information, includes coverage of operating environments, files, disks, and a general overview of the available software categories, and features a tour through typical hardware, such as monitor, system unit, printer, modem, and sound card.
Geared to answer the beginning PC purchaser’s first-time buying needs, showing the reader how to interpret ads (133 mhz vs 200 mhz, MMX, Meg, RAM, etc.), etc.
Coverage of operating environments, files, disks, and a general overview of the software categories out there.
A tour through the typical hardware (monitor, system unit, printer, modem, sound card, etc.).