Saturday, February 12, 2011

Bits and Bytes

So I'm probably going to date myself, but I recall the days where there was one Wang word processor in the office at the Army and the rest of us used IBM electric typewriters with multi-color tissue paper we prepared with carbon paper.


Since that time, computers and electronics have moved at light speed.  My friend Talia provided me with some interesting facts about bits and bytes and I had to share.


1 Bit = Binary Digit 
8 Bits = 1 Byte 
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte 
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte 
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte 
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte 
1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte 
1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte 
1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte 
1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte 
1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte 
1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte


At one time in the not too distant past, a megabyte was huge.  We will probably be carrying around little flash drives with a brontobyte soon!  Ah - progress!

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