Computer Specialists

Computer Specialists

Our specialists can service, support, maintain and upgrade your computer equipment and networks. We can help with small projects like installing Anti-virus software, installing new programs, or setting up a secure wireless internet connection or help with large projects like building an office network. We can even come to your home or office, so you don't miss a beat

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The Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.
The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.

A brief history of the internet

The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet

Program: A complex set of instructions that allow the computer user to process data. Common programs include word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, drawing and painting, Internet tools, and games. Programs are necessary for computers to be useful to humans.
RAM: This acronym stands for Random Access Memory. RAM is commonly called "memory". Memory is measured in megabytes (MB) and usually comes in multiples of 2 or 4. The more RAM that a computer has, the better it can carry out instructions. It is recommended that a new computer have 32 MB, 64MB, or 128MB of RAM.

Printer: A peripheral device that allows the computer user to produce paper copies of the information processed by the computer. Common home printers spray ink on paper and are called ink-jet printers. Office and school printers are typically laser printers which work on the same principle as a xerographic copy machine, using electrostatic charges and toner cartridges to place information on paper.

Pentium - Pentium II: Faster, larger CPU devices that are designed to allow more computing instructions to occur per second. Most computers manufactured in the past 3 to 4 years contain this device.
Peripheral Device: Any device that is connected to the computer in addition to the basic CPU-Monitor-Keyboard-Mouse configuration. External speakers, microphones, joysticks, printers, and scanners are examples of peripherals.

Platform: The computer operating system and/or architecture. Computers that are capable of running MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows95/NT operating system software typically have the Intel 486/Pentium CPU. Computers running the Macintosh operating system software have a Motorola 68xxx/PowerPC CPU. For the most part, these platforms are incompatible as they have different rules and instructions for performing their tasks.