Follow me on TWITTER HERE twitter.com Join me on FACEBOOK HERE www.facebook.com www.convar.com for the cool Bytespotter drive! Here is a video on the word BYTE! Hello my dear students, I was looking at this new drive called the ByteSpotter that allows you to see the drive accessing and writing the data... ... which is pretty cool.. it looks like a record player.. only faster and jumping around! Anyway.. that got me to thinking.. what exactly is a BYTE? They use the term quite a bit when referring to computers. Megabytes, Gigabytes, etc. And why is it called a byte in the first place? HotForWords must feed the punch card into my computer to investigate this! What? I got my hands on this mainframe computer for super cheap at a garage sale! It's only the size of my living room and takes punch cards for input. I mean, who needs keyboards? I'm a purist like that! OK.. now.. hold on.. must punch in an A.. that would be here and here.. ok.. now let me feed this card into the computer to find out where byte comes from! OK.. I got the results back and it looks like... studies the punch card more.. Umm.. it looks like a lot of dots on a piece of paper! How the heck am I supposed to read this? Cut the camera! Camera goes to static, then off. Oh, hi! I got rid of that stupid computer, it was too complicated! Anyway.. a byte is the computer term for 8 bits. A bit is short for binary digit and is the smallest unit of data on a computer. There are 2 options, it's either on or off.. a <b>...</b>
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