What Parts of a Computer Affect Its Speed?. If you own a modern computer, it is probably several times faster than the one that landed the first lunar module on the moon.

The secondhand computer parts market can come with a lack of guarantees or assurances about what you are getting.

Likewise, static electricity transferred to a part can weaken it without fully disabling it. If you're not having fevered dreams about static killing your computer parts, you are not afraid enough.

A piece of cybernetic history returned home as a long-lost component of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the first practical general purpose computers, was ...