Digital Literacy and other thoughts from Unit 2

Understanding the digitizer- Any handwriten item on a page, human vocalization conducted face-to-face are considered Analog.
Digital=binary(on/off or 1 and 0)
A bit is the smallest portion of storage and it takes eight of these units to make one byte. One byte of bits is needed to transmit enough binary code (also called machine language) to represent a single number, letter or charactor in human language. Bytes are then used to store data sets(units of information to be retrieved later) in a computer memory device such as a hard drive.

Memory types:

RAM- Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
COM- Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor
Cashe- (level 1 and Level 2 processors) aids processing speed
Flash- USB/removeable /temporary storage devices