I’m not asking what computer code is. I’m asking how typing in commands physically opens/closes the little switches in computers?
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Basically, you think you’re typing words and meaning into the keyboard, but in reality you’re just pusing the correct “combos” to turn on a peripheral. As if the keyboard was just a TV remote control. Ctrl-Alt-Delete just more complicated.
The CPU and memory are “blank canvases” of switches (transistors). A large set of dominoes, all of the blocks set upright next to each other. Software (Windows) pre-toggles some of these switches to create “pathways”, like rotating some of the domino blocks so that when they topple, they’ll chain-topple towards the screen or towards the DVD burner or whatever.
You press the correct combo on the keyboard and that triggers the first transistor, topples the first domino block. The rest topple along based on the path set up by Windows, and the final transistor topples the DVD burner for example.
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