Yeap, hardwear(refer the title). No typo. But you're still right, hardware. Anyway, why do I say hardwear? Well, these hardware works as "accessory-like-wears", so its hard + work like accessory-like-wears, so HardWear.

Right, too much crapping. Lets just get straight to the point, shall we.

(clears throat) Anyway, on the last lesson which is on 3rd of Febuary 2012 (Friday), CHS Itanium Solutions conducted a series of courses which covers Hardware knowledge which is categorized in our IT Essentials syllabus. Attendance's excellent, as at least 95% of the registered members attended the course.

With new protocols, members are required to form a line outside the computer lab and enter one by one with their Gerko Cards submitted. All the members have shown great co-operation, and we hereby thank you for that. Once settled down, our president which was our lesson conductor for Hardware, Samuel Goh K.H started the course by briefing the members some standard protocols, club fees(RM10), club's official website, club's facebook page(for more info, please scroll down to the bottom of the post).

We handed out paper notes to the students. The lesson is mainly conducted orally with the assistance of Microsoft PowerPoint and 3 committee members, Brian Goh as Material Assistant/Assistant Conductor, Tan Shi Dong as Computer Control and Chan Weng Cheong as Discipline and Crowd Control.

The students paid great attention while the lesson being conducted. The lesson on that day mainly covered Motherboards a.k.a Mobo, a board which houses most of the components that make up a computer, and controls the data flow between components.

Components includes : (at the minimum)

• sockets for micro-processors
• slots for system main memory
• a chipset which forms an interface between the CPU's front-side bus, main memory, and peripheral buses
• non-volatile memory chips (containing the system's BIOS or firmware)
• clock generator for synchronization
• slots for expansion cards
• power connectors (connecting to the power supply)

On 1:13PM, students were dismissed, followed by a short 30 seconds brief/reminder of our club's Facebook page, official website.

Just an extra reminder, our club pages:
CHS Itanium Solutions: www.chsitanium.com, or click here.
CHS Itanium Solutions Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/chsitanium, or click here.

Details on our next lesson/meeting will be posted soon. STAY TUNED!

With the best regards,
Chan Weng Cheong,
Webmaster II,
Itanium Solutions,
Catholic High.