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Server Project


For our first project in this Computer Science course, our class took apart a
computer and saw what was inside and learned what they did.Before doing this
project, I had never seen the inside of a computer. One thing that I found
interesting was that a RAM is different from a Hard Drive since the Hard Drive
stores permanent memory while the the RAM only keeps memory that you're using
at the moment.


If you've never seen the inside of a server before, you're looking at it. This is
the inside of the server my group got. In the server, there are many components
in it. I've already mentioned the Hard Drive and RAM but besides those, there
is a Heatsink, a CPU under the Heatsink, and much more cool stuff!



If you noticed the black cover in the whole picture of the server, this is what's
under it. In the top left corner, you would see nice, colorful cables. Those
wires are called Serial Cables.



In this picture, you could see the servers' VGA Port and the VGA cable itself.
VGA is an acronym for Video Graphics Array/Adaptor.



These are pictures of the keyboard and mouse ports with the ports' cable in front
of its port. The keyboard is the purple port (orange cable) and the mouse it the
green port (white cable).



The picture on the right is a picture of an individual piece of a RAM from the
Server. The picture on the left is where the RAM goes. In this server, there are
four individual pieces.



This is a picture of the Heatsink. The Heatsink gets hot really quickly. Because of
the major heating, there is a component right under the Heatsink that cools it
down. That component is called the CPU (Central Processing Unit).


Troubleshooting!

On the first day our group opened up our server, it was running fine. After
unplugging, unscrewing and removing components, when we tried to put everything
back together to work again, we failed... Horribly. We couldn't get things back to
how they were and we couldn't get the computer working again. Although our
computer didn't start to work afterwards, I observed other groups and their work
was quite interesting. They all tried to figure out what was wrong with the server
and once they had an idea, they tested it, and most of the time, for the groups I
saw, their first guess was correct.

Intel Museum!


On Friday of our 6th week in Computer Science, we are going to go to the Intel Museum that's in
Santa Clara. I, unfortunately can't go because the night before the field trip when I was asking
my mom to sign my permission slip, I got in trouble and she didn't sign it so I couldn't make it.

Aside from not going, Intel is a pretty cool company that you could learn about online. I researched
what Intel did even though I already knew they make processors for computers because it's a shame that
I couldn't actually go to Intel and get the tour of what they did... And also, the laptop I have doesn't
have Intel inside of it-- it has AMD, haha.

Intel is "...an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa
Clara, California," a Wikipedia page said.

By the way, a semi conductor is a solid substance that is able to have the connectivity between an insulator
and most metals. It is used in most things that use electronic circuits because with out it, the components
will not work.

In the beginning of the Intel Corporation, it was orginally founded in Mountain View, California in 1968, actually.
In 1968, Intel was founded by Gordon E. Moore, Robert Noyce, Arthur Rock, and Max Palevsky. Gordon and Robert were
Intel's first 2 employees! That's pretty cool.

Intel Museum.