What happens inside computers?

• The cream yellow Volvo 850 T5-R wagon (Pinterest)
• What is a computer? (Computer Hope)
• When women stopped coding (Planet Money, NPR)
• Women computers in World War II (Engineering & Technology History)
• Human computers: The women of NASA (History)
• How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!)
• How does a computer work? (Computer Hope)
• What does the inside of a computer look like? (Computer Hope)
• What is computer hardware? (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• Turing machine (Wikipedia)
• Turing machines explained (YouTube)
• Central processing unit (Computer Hope)
• Transistors (Explain That Stuff!)
• How transistors work (How Stuff Works, Electronics)
• CSIRAC: The only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world (Museums Victoria)
• Transistors used to be vacuum tubes: The transistor in a century of electronics (The Nobel Prize)
• Logic gate (Computer Hope)
• Binary (Computer Hope)
• What is silicon & why are computer chips made from it? (Extreme Tech)
• Facts about silicon (livescience)
• Why silicon computers rule (Cosmos)
• Moore's law: The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years (Wikipedia)
• The 'doubling of grains of rice on a chess board' fable (The Math Forum)
• The tunnelling transistor (IEEE)
• Deterministic algorithm (Wikipedia)
• Motherboard (Computer Hope)
• Universal serial bus, or USB (Computer Hope)
• How USB ports work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master: Have we finally reached our limits?(aeon)
• Raspberry Pi
• Arduino
• Random access memory, or RAM (Computer Hope)
• Read only memory, or ROM (Computer Hope)
• Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (The Phrase Finder)
• Boot (Computer Hope)
• What happens when you switch a computer on? (The Linux Documentation Project)
• How PCs work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• Power-on self-test, or POST (Computer Hope)
• Boot sector (Computer Hope)
• Kernel (Computer Hope)
• Kernel (Wikipedia)
• What is shut down? (Computer Hope)
• What is actually happening when a Windows computer is shutting down? (How-To Geek)
• How to shut down a computer (Computer Hope)
• Energy efficiency guide for iOS apps & 'batching transactions' (Apple)
• CPU power dissipation (Wikipedia)
• Power efficiency in OS X (Apple)
• Public service announcement: You should not force quit apps on iOS (Daring Fireball, John Gruber)
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