MS Technology Vocabulary Sara Reddy
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Sara Reddy
January 2009
Computer 7-1
Megabyte
Memory space equal to 1,000,000 bytes. It is abbreviated as Mbyte or MB. It is used to tell the amount of memory that you can store in something like a hard drive or a flash drive. It can also be random access memory. It is used by the binary system. It uses 1 or 0 digits. In the binary system, 0000=0, 0001=1, 0010=2, 0011=3 and so on. Until you get to a million bytes, then you have a megabyte.
