There is a lot of information out on the web on computer
hardware. I think you just have to look for it.
Look for data sheets and application notes for some of the
older microprocessors for a start. Find a nice 8 bit processor
like an 8080, 6800, 6502, or Z80; and search for the
information. The information supplied for those chips was
pretty straight forward because everybody was new to using
microcomputers.
Also search in a different part of your public library if you have
one. Here books on general computing are in a different
location from books on electronics where you would find real
hardware information.
If you know any electronics engineers, talk them out of all the
obsolete data books that you can. If you want to know
hardware, you need to know electronics. If you want to to be a
programmer, that's a whole other science.
Mike
On 16 Apr 00, at 14:27, Or Botton wrote:
> I've decided to send this here, because this is probebly one of the last
> place I have access to that got real computer hackers in it,
>
> Has most you probebly know, for the last years i've been trying to be
> something that I think that is now almost totally extinct. A hacker, in
> the original meaning of the sense. Not a person who brake into sites and
> software, but something totoally else: a person who like and can squeese
> the the most power out of his machine. A person of the type who, if in
> need of a software program that is not availble anywhere, can just sit
> down and try to make one by himself. The kind of a person who knows what
> is going on in his machine, and can do almost whatever he can think of
> with it.
>
> Unfortunatly, it seems like where I live, that kind of a person is long
> gone dead.
>
> I've been studying by myself for a long time now, but I could use the help
> of another person and more information resources. The only books I can
> find around here are about "how to use Word" and how to install Windows
> 98. Luckly i've been in the computer scene since around 1986, since I was
> in secord grade. So I had access to computers just before they became
> "easier", which means that even though i'm still not the computer wizard I
> aspire to be, I still have much more knowledge then the average modern
> user today. Unfortunatly, as far as things go in "real life", i'm quite
> abit alone. No one to study with, no one to learn from. When I went to the
> hacker conference some time ago I thought that I might be able to meet
> other people who thought like me. Unfortunatly, I found only crackers. The
> real hackers in the area were either the visiting celebrities like Captain
> Crunch or the Con managers, who were 1)too busy to talk with anyone 2)Busy
> anyway in real life. So, I sepose that i'll have to continue to study
> alone.
>
> What i'd like to know is this: anyone knows where I should continue?
> I could use a few references to good information resources.. for example,
> i'm quite the hardware newbie. As far as hardware configuration goes, I
> only know that I should put this and that cable this way and not that way,
> and how to set jumpers. I would like to know why is that, and how it
> works. Same goes to software. I want to know what makes my machine tick,
> and how I can change the ticks myself if I need/want to. The only info I
> could find about such things latly was only related to cracking that
> thing. And cracking is the last thing i'm intrested at.
>
> I would also like to hear your thought on the matter.
>
> Or Botton
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