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I want to copy some files onto floppy discs (music) the person I am doing them for doesn't have CD or USB port for a key. Right problem for me. The floppy says formatted holds 1.48mb is this 1,480 kb please.
Thanks
Pat

I must be thick too as I have no idea, hopefully someone will!

Not much help am I? lol

xx

Thanks Kitty. Glad I'm not the only one.

there are 1028 kilobytes to a megabyte

Jax xx

yes!!

8 bits= 1 byte
1028 bytes = 1Kb
1028 kb =1 Mb
1028 Mb = 1 Gb.......

Bob

Thank you Jax and Bob.

Bob as if I know what a bit is LOL

I have around 70,000 kb so I need a heck of a lot of discs then. Oh well back to the shop

Pat

I'm still struggling with kilos and cm's! lol

xx

So is that the modern equivalent of what we learned in school...
12 inches = 1 foot.
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain
8 chains = 1 furlong etc etc

Karen, who knows nuffink about computer stuff.

A bit?
Summat we vacuum off the floor isn't it? LOL
Tricia

lol

I thought a bit went in a horse's mouth!

xx

No prob Pat

Im shocked i remembered that

omg ive been bothering with too many geeks lol

Thanks everyone for your funny comments. You are all totally mad I'm glad to say. Just what I needed a laugh. Thabks for not laughing at me though.

Pat

Glad we made you laugh........no help with your question though! LOL

xx

I'm not laughing at you 'cos i don't have a clue either.

The only thing I do on my puter is me tree.

Sloooooowly learning "bits" to do, ho ho
Tricia

Hiya, got attracted to the "geek" question.

:-))

Did you do binary at school?

x Jen

Here we go another stupid question from me



What is binary?

xx

Girls

A bit is a binary digit a unit of storing information like on a bar code on ya shopping its made up of 0 and 1 in different combinations

omg my street cred has really gone now lol

Then the answer is I must have been away that day! lol

xx

It's not a stupid question, I don't think some people studied it.

Right, we count in units of 10 in normal life. For some maths things you have to count in binary.

So numbers look like this 100101 but mean say 143. In binary there are only 2 options 1 or 0. A bit in a computer is either on (1) or off (0). The combinations of 1s and 0s are how computers work things out.

So an 8 bit byte may have all bits on 11111111 or all off 00000000 or a mixture 0101110 sort of thing.

Erm I don't think I am explaining this very well.

I wasn't much cop at maths but I learned this on a ancient IT course. I liked it, it was like a new language.

There's also base 16 which is called hexadecimal and used to be used in programming.

But I have waffled too much - I hope someone else can explain properly!!

;-))))

Jen

Binary a series of 8 ....0's or 1's
first is 0 or 1
second is 0 or 2
third is 0 or 4
fourth is 0 or 8
fifth is 0 or 16
sixth is 0 or 32
seventh is 0 or 64
eigth is 0 or 128

so 00000010 means 64
11111111= 255
01111111..2+8+16+32+64+128= 254.........
Hexadecimal...........
0123456789ABCDEF




will have to get me book out fer that one......LOL