Basic Computer Parts: PODCAST

CPV: brain

• giga Herts = cycles per second

  • 1 giga Herts = 3 billion operations

• Connects everything to everything else

• RAM = memory, shit its working on like a work table

• Gigabits bigger capacity the better

Hard drive: long-term memory

• 1 byte = 8 bits

  • ex. 010100110

  • You don’t byte off more than you can chew

    • byte > bit

  • Hexadecimal

    • counting by base 16/groups of 16 instead of groups of ten

UTF

• operating system (ghost in the machine getting the software ready to work in ways that humans can’t do)