What happens inside computers?

The cream yellow Volvo 850 T5-R wagon (Pinterest)
What is a computer? (Computer Hope)
When women stopped coding (Planet Money, NPR)
Women computers in World War II (Engineering & Technology History)
Human computers: The women of NASA (History)
How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!)
How does a computer work? (Computer Hope)
What does the inside of a computer look like? (Computer Hope)
What is computer hardware? (How Stuff Works, Tech)
Turing machine (Wikipedia)
Turing machines explained (YouTube)
Central processing unit (Computer Hope)
Transistors (Explain That Stuff!)
How transistors work (How Stuff Works, Electronics)
CSIRAC: The only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world (Museums Victoria)
Transistors used to be vacuum tubes: The transistor in a century of electronics (The Nobel Prize)
Logic gate (Computer Hope)
Binary (Computer Hope)
What is silicon & why are computer chips made from it? (Extreme Tech)
Facts about silicon (livescience)
Why silicon computers rule (Cosmos)
Moore's law: The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years (Wikipedia)
The 'doubling of grains of rice on a chess board' fable (The Math Forum)
The tunnelling transistor (IEEE)
Deterministic algorithm (Wikipedia)
Motherboard (Computer Hope)
Universal serial bus, or USB (Computer Hope)
How USB ports work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master: Have we finally reached our limits?(aeon)
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
Random access memory, or RAM (Computer Hope)
Read only memory, or ROM (Computer Hope)
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (The Phrase Finder)
Boot (Computer Hope)
What happens when you switch a computer on? (The Linux Documentation Project)
How PCs work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
Power-on self-test, or POST (Computer Hope)
Boot sector (Computer Hope)
Kernel (Computer Hope)
Kernel (Wikipedia)
What is shut down? (Computer Hope)
What is actually happening when a Windows computer is shutting down? (How-To Geek)
How to shut down a computer (Computer Hope)
Energy efficiency guide for iOS apps & 'batching transactions' (Apple)
CPU power dissipation (Wikipedia)
Power efficiency in OS X (Apple)
Public service announcement: You should not force quit apps on iOS (Daring Fireball, John Gruber)
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