Help me with RAM please...

RAM - Random Access Memory. This is temporary storage for programs and data while a computer is turned on. Information is retrieved from the hard drive into RAM for the user to work with.

Once a computer is turned off, the information in RAM is lost. For this reason, RAM is called volatile, while more permanent storage in flash drives and hard drives are non-volatile.

Information is stored in organized arrangements of ones and zeros. Any single one or zero is called a bit, which stands for Binary digIT. 8 bits makes one byte and can store a character, like the letter A. You can get varying sizes of organized bits like nybbles and words.

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Ever heard of Wikipedia per chance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM

 

Wikipedia won't be acceptable for a school project.

I know that sounds retarded and I've yelled at my colleagues (I'm a librarian) for it, but they just don't want to accept it.

How It Works is more acceptable for them. Here's the URL.