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Sorry if I confused you......I confuse myself at times also!!
you dont these days have to know HOW a computer works......the REAL question was "how much can you get onto a floppy?"......but as Dodger has pointed out, a floppy won't hold much music.

I used to back up my FTM vers 6 program to 3.25 in. ?floppies

the last time I did it, it took 22 floppies,now with the FTM 2005 it hardly uses much of a cd........or a 512Mb flashdrive.

Bob

if you and they have bb you can usually e mail songs.just attach them as a file.

I have pm'd dodger. Sorry everyone I went into the garden to check the washing and had a tiny little fly go into my eye. Result eye started streaming and was quite painful couldn't see properly. Motto HOUSEWORK IS DANGEROUS and should carry a health & safety warning. Loved all your comments but sorry Jen and Bob all that tech info went over my head.
Pat

hi Harper,i think it would be better to forget putting music on floppys,as you stated floppys have 1.4 mb storage space,a standard music track is between 2 to 4 mb ,you said the person you are doing them for dos'nt have a cd,if you are trying to put them onto a floppy, i take it she has a pc,can you not copy to a cd and could the person not play them on their pc?
dodger

I would thank you bob, but i don't know what you are talking about.

When I was at school we had to learn pounds and ounces..... now they are blinkin obsolete!!
And they want me to learn the euro stuff.

Same with feet and inches, and they are now changing grammar..... the times I was shouted at for getting things wrong!!

AND NOW IT DOESN'T MATTER!!;-0(

poor me..... Deanna the daftyX

Course you can Deanna

Daff...............that makes you almost a professor of mathematics!! lol

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Well Pat.... as you can see, you are not alone!

Please may I join this daft club, since I'm dafter than any of you??

Deanna X

Ellen - any time you want an incoherent description of a barely understood phenomenon just look for my name!

:-))

Bob, you can't just throw numbers at us, you have to teech us proply!!!

ummmm I gotta Hexagonal bit of a table in the garden.

and it has some bvinery growing around it.

A metre is three foot three it's bigger than a yard, you see.

Does this mean that I am good at maths and stuff?

Love

Daff xxx

:))))))

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lol, I was just about to wail and ask Bob to clear up my mess of an "explanation"!!

*ducks as the last two posts fly over my head*

Clear as mud!! LOL

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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

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

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

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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

Here we go another stupid question from me



What is binary?

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Hiya, got attracted to the "geek" question.

:-))

Did you do binary at school?

x Jen

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

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

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