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Computer hardware is often considered by computer users as a mysterious link between electronics and those black (or blue) boxes, which understand computer languages and data and perform all kind of computations and storage actions at a phantastic speed. They are supposed to work with binary signals and consist of an ever-growing number of AND- and OR-circuits. These black boxes are praised by salesmen as ultimate and finalized — at every instance of time — , designed by producers and configured by computer specialists only, so that a user must not worry with any internals nor interfere with his ideas relating to system design.
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Leilich, HO. (1977). Hardware. In: Reichertz, P.L., Goos, G. (eds) Informatics and Medicine. Medizinische Informatik und Statistik, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81110-4_2
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