RAM-ROM-HARD DISK---TABLE ANALOGY

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Many people get confused and fail to understand properly, the concepts of RAM, ROM and a Hard Disk. These concepts are the fundamentals and corner stones of computer hardware and Computer architecture. So a CLEAR understanding of these concepts is required. We give a simple analogy here to make you understand that.

With respect to Chapter 2 of Computer Hardware-Memory, we explain a simple analogy to the 3 concepts, namely RAM, ROM and the Hard Disk of a computer.

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAIN FRAME COMPUTERS AND SUPER COMPUTERS

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With respect to Chapter 1 of Computer Hardware-Introduction to a Computer, we would like to explain in simple terms, the difference between main frames and Super computers.

Well, a lot of people get confused between Main frame computers and Super Computers. It is always regarded as “some sort of special hi-fi computer which I anyway don’t use”.So to put it in simple words-
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