imho: Stop wasting your time understanding PCs. If you're still curious just follow the link trails: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer http://en.wi

imho: Stop wasting your time understanding PCs. If you're still curious just follow the link trails: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer You'll land here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture or here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture 1) Create your own computable language or understand binary 2) Think of ways to store/load and process the data in that language 2.1) Think of ways to add/remove data from the storage 3) Create different concepts that embody that idea 4) Now you can start building it, or 3D-Printing your idea If you're a developer, you can even write a simulation before building it physically. There are many tools for this, two I know are: http://www.monolithic3d.com/simulators.html http://www.monolithic3d.com/simulators.html and http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/index.html http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/index.html