First we searched on the internet by using search engines such as Yahoo, Excite and Google. You just type in what subject you're searching for and it will track it down resulting in lots of sites to explore. If the subject was not on the internet we used books - a second resort. When we couldn't find information in our books either, we went to a site where we could ask computer experts. These experts were very nice and gave us lots of information via e-mail.
Books tend to be out of date because computer companies are always coming out with new models.
But the basic rules of how a computer works do not change so out of date books are okay for learning about floppy drives and CD ROM drives and hard drives. And it couldn't do anything like computers can today. It could compute around 1,000,000 calculations per second and that was fast for then. Today computers calculate about a hundred times that. The first computer was the first step and it changed the world.