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Storage and Memory Devices
By: Gabe McNamara and Jaimie Hey
Types: Secure Digital (SD), CompactFlash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), Multimedia Card (MMC) XD-Picture Card (XD) and Smart Media (SM).
Uses: store music, pictures, documents and
even games. ( commonly used with a digital camera).
Costs: anywhere from $10-$400
Microdrive Storage Devices
Bytes • a byte is a unit of data that
is eight binary digits long.
• unit most computers use to represent a character such as a letter, number, or typographic symbol.
• http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/binary-numbers.htm
Binary conversion for10011101 = 157
For help with conversion’s go to this link.
A motherboard allows all the parts of your computer to receive power and communicate with one another.
Last twenty years developed extremely.
Motherboards typically boast a wide variety of built-in features, and they directly affect a computer's capabilities and potential for upgrades.
http://www.smartcomputing.com/articles/archive/R0503/06R03/06R03.pdf?guid
Motherboard
Silicon Chips
Three steps to making silicon chips:• Converting sand to silicon• Creating a cylindrical crystal• Slicing the crystal into wafers
silicon chip - electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a
number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit.
http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3059