Topics for assignment

Marina's chosen Topics:

Primary Storage

Secondary Storage

CPU's

Cassandra's Chosen topics:

Motherboards

Graphic Cards

Hand Held Multimedia

22.09.08 assignment

Today i finished all my work and updated the piczo site. We finally finished the research and summarised the answers. We also added the photos and given a brief explanation of why that particular image is on the site. The biggest problem i encountered was where to put the text of information. I was pressing print screen from microsoft word and saving the document as an image after it was cropped. I then put it on piczo as an image. It was alot harder to understand so i decided just to copy and paste my written text and put it onto piczo. I've categorised the information into different colours to its easy to understand which part is which.

Bibliography of my websites used:

Secondary Storage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_storage

Primary Storage:
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212517,00.html

CPU's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU

19.09.08 assignment

Today i finally finished my topics CPU's, secondary storage and primary storage. Im going to upload the videos today of these topics and show how they relate to them. We also added credits to the end of our piczo site.

17.09.08 Assignment

Today i finished all the questions i needed to complete and now im editing the piczo site and uploading all the questions. The speed is taking a while and its getting more difficult to upload. We shouls be finished by Monday.

Assignment Blog 25.08.08

Today cassandra and me formed our own group and began researching again. We picked up from where we left of last time. I finished one of the assigned tasks. I have 5 more to do now. We made our new piczo. We made our two seperate pages to post the work that we have to do. I was having difficulties with researching the last question i don't understand it that well. I can't find any research on future preferences.

Bits and Bytes:

1) What is a Digit?
A single unit or numeral in a counting system.

2) “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers?
A statistical measure of usually observed structures, typical, or represenative type

3) Where does the word bit originate from? A mathematical term

4) Binary numbers don’t use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2? the base they use is units. The digits available are always twice as big.

5) You would write it as 4000, 300, 20, one

6) -

7) what is a byte ? Abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits. Large amounts of memory are indicated in terms of kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), and gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).

8) How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes?
kilo: 1000
Mega: 1000000
Giga: 1000
tera: 1000000000000

9)
Complete the following conversions;
1000 Mb = 1000Gb
500 Gb = 5000000Mb
5000 Kb = ?Mb

Assignment blog- 20.08.08

Today Sam and I began working on the project. We created our on seperate pages for piczo. When we finish the work we're going to press print screen of microsoft word and make the research for the assignment in a picture format. We are then going to upload it to our pages on piczo. Today i answered all 5 of the questions on my first task which was Secondary Storage: includingHard Disk Drive Blu-ray Disks DVD (standards – single layer, dual layer,) & CDUSB memory storage.

Next lesson im going to work on the last 2 tasks and then we are going to work on the uploading of the project. We might also add some videos to the assignment so people can understand where we are coming from.