Essays Tagged: "megabytes"
This essay is about how proccessors amd computerchips work.
equirements==================================================================Minimum:500 MHz CPU128 Megabytes of RAM3D accelerated 32 MB video card or equivalent with HW-T&L(Hardware Transform &am ... D-ROM/DVD-ROMDirectx 8.1 Compatible Sound CardMS compatible mouseKeyboardRecommended:800 MHz CPU256 Megabytes of RAM3D accelerated 64 MB video card or equivalent with HW-T&L(Hardware Transform &am ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Liberate Technology and iTV
of fiber optics and satellite communications, the communications industry will be able to transfer megabytes of information in fractions of a second. This will allow every American access to the info ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Managing Quality while Outsourcing: How much needs to be compromised? - Aseem Jain
ponential gains in technology. For example, I bought my first hard-disk drive in 1984. It stored 20 megabytes and cost $500. A few weeks ago I bought a disk drive that stores 2,000 times more data tha ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
How is data stored electronically and by what method?
er can be stored in one byte. We normally refer to storage capacities in terms of kilobytes (KB) or megabytes (MB).1 KB = 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes1 GB = 1 gigabyte = 1000 MBMemory ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
A Breif History of the Hard Drive
k spun at 1200 RPMS, had a data transfer rate of 8800 bytes per second and a total capacity of five megabytes. The computer that contained the hard drive leased for 3,200 dollars per month. IBM contin ... The 3340 "Winchester" (wikipedia) hard drive. "The 3340 had two spindles each with a capacity of 30 Megabytes, and the term 30/30 Winchester was thus coined." (Larry) The term Winchester became a comm ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Online Music Debate
ference between WAV and MP3 is the file size. For example, a song two and a half minutes long is 30 megabytes in WAV format while an MP3 of the same song is only 3 megabytes (MPEG).Before the MP3 was ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Determining a Computer's Speed
runs programs and works with data, it uses RAM to store the program information. RAM is measured in megabytes (MB). More RAM allows a computer to run more complex programs and to do so faster. After t ... used frequently. A floppy disk is a portable storage device. One type is a 3.5" that stores 1.44Mb (megabytes) of data. Floppy discs were replaced with drives that had more storage space which would a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Cd roms
.A CD:ROM can hold more information than both of them put together. CD:ROMs hold up to four hundred megabytes of information. That is about half of what an average hard drive holds up to today.A hard ... CD:ROMs which are very hard to find. The CD:ROMs cost around twenty seven dollars for four hundrend megabytes.That's why only rich people and some bisnesses those machines.CD:ROM drives have many part ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Hard drive evolution
drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes of data and cost roughly $35,000.For years, hard disk drives were confined to mainframe an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Computer Storage Devices
the size of the disk that is used in that particular drive. A 3.5 inch floppy drive can store 1.44 megabytes and a 5.25 floppy can store 1.2 megabytes. Imation has developed a superdisk drive which h ... can store 1.2 megabytes. Imation has developed a superdisk drive which has a capacity of 120 or 200 megabytes which is backwards compatible with the 3.5 inch floppy.The third type of storage that I am ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Office Automation Software
pically for managing limited amounts of data. Access is not commonly used for databases hundreds of megabytes in size, and that is why the SQL Server is more appropriate for big size of data storage. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology