Information for this tutorial came from a combination of several commercial sources and the combined knowledge of personnel from the CIO Information Center. Much of this same information is available on the World Wide Web. The main sources we used are listed below.

• Winn L. Rosch, Hardware Bible, Third Edition, SAMS Publishers, 1994, and later versions.

• Upgrading and Repairing PCs, sixth addition, Que Publishers,1997, and later versions, By Scott Mueller

• PCI System Architecture (Third Edition) Mind Share, Inc By Tom Shanley / Don Anderson

• Absolute Beginners Guide to Memory Management, SAMs Publishing, By Mike Miller

• Inside the PC (Sixth Edition), SAMs Publishing, By Peter Norton

• Kingston Technology Corporation  www.kingston.com

• Micronics Computers, Inc. http://www.micronics.com/

• Seagate Technology, Inc http://www.seagate.com/

• "PC Magazine", Guide to Computer Acronyms. http://xlink.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/xlink/xlink/search.html?Uch=50&Utype=D&Utext=Guide+to+Computer+Acronyms&db=PC+Magazine

• IOMEGA Corp. http://www.iomega.com/

• Intel Web Page http://www.intel.com/

• Smart Computing Web Page http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/stoc.asp?guid=up2igws0&vol=6&iss=8&type=3

• "The RAM Guide, Tom's Hardware Guide" At  http://www.sysdoc.pair.com/  One of the Best WEB pages anywhere!

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