Nancy and Bobís Fabulous First Web Page

The List

• one byte = 1 character and = 8 bits
• 1 K = 1,000 and is the same as 1 page
• 1 meg = 1 million and is the same as 1 book
• 1 gigabyte = 1 billion and is the same as 1,000 books
• 1 terabyte = 1 trillion
• a floppy disk holds 1.4 meg, the same as 1,400K or 1 million 4 hundred bytes
• a typical memory stick holds 64 meg
• Zip disk holds between 100 meg and 750 meg
• CD ROM holds about 650 meg, the same as 650,000 K
• DVD disk holds between 4,7 and 17 gigabytes
• RAM stands for Random Access Memory
• ROM stands for Read Only Memory
• Larry Bird's intitials are 76 and 66
• They all use the USB port
• Digital Video Cameras use fire wire
• Baud Rate refers the rate at which data travels and expressed in bits per second
• File Server is a storage place outside your computer on the network

That's all folks!

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