Computer Repair
Repairing and Upgrading Your PC, 1st Edition
By Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara...
[Publish Date: March 2006]
Robert Bruce Thompson is a coauthor of Building the Perfect PC, Astronomy Hacks, and the Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders. Thompson built his first computer in 1976 from discrete chips. Since then, he has bought, built, upgraded, and repaired...
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Stephen J. Bigelow has written for Computer Currents, CNET, and other periodicals, and is the author of many hardware books for Osborne/McGraw and others, such as Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs, Bigelow's PC Hardware Desk Reference, Troubleshooting...
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Four short links: 29 September 2009 - O'Reilly Radar
By Nat Torkington
Bletchley Park May Have a Future -- The UK birthplace of modern computing, where Alan Turing worked during WW II breaking German codes, is dilapidated and in need of major repair. They appear to have a supporter in the UK National Lottery, who have given them a grant to begin work and prepare for further grants. (See also The Geek Atlas) This and more in today's Four Short Links.
[Publish Date: September 29, 2009]
Who's Worse: Computer Repair Shops or Used Car Dealers? - O'Reilly Windows ...
By Preston Gralla
It's the enternal question: Who's less trustworthy -- computer repair shops or used car dealers? If my experience in the last week with a local repair shop is any indication, computer repair shops lose, hands down....
[Publish Date: June 19, 2006]
The Feyerabend Project - O'Reilly XML Blog
By Simon St. Laurent
Paul Feyerabend's philosophical and scientific legacy of semantic instability seems to be inspiring new work in computing, a deliberate effort to "repair the arena of software development and practice."
[Publish Date: February 22, 2002]
PC Technician Black Book, 1st Edition
By Ron Gilster
This book is a ready reference of troubleshooting, diagnostics, and repair processes and procedures for a range of commonly used personal computers and peripheral devices. It is written in the popular Black Book format with a hardware focus. Unlike o...
[Publish Date: May 2001]
