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The following are the various units of computer memory measurements:

                                  8 bits      1 byte                         1024 bytes        1 Kilobyte (KB)

                       1024 Megabytes         1 Gigabyte (GB)             1024 Kilobytes       1 Megabyte (MB)


                        1024 Gigabytes        1 Terabyte (TB)             1024 Terabytes         1 Petabyte (PB)


                        1024 Exabytes        1 Zettabyte (ZB)              1024 Petabytes        1 Exabyte (EB)



                       1024 Zettabytes        1 Yottabyte (YB)             1024 Yottabytes         1 Brontobyte



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                                The term 'byte' was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956.           FACT






                            TYPES OF COMPUTER MEMORY


                  The computer memory can be classified into two types:

                     Primary Memory
                     Secondary Memory



                                                    Computer Memory







                        Primary Memory                                       Secondary Memory




                                                      Hard           CD          DVD           Pen          SSD
                                                      Disk                                    Drive
                       RAM            ROM

                                                         Blu-ray Disc              Memory Card



                  PRIMARY MEMORY

                  Primary memory is the main memory of the computer. It is also known as internal memory.
                  It holds the data and instructions that the computer is currently working on and makes it
                  easily accessible for the CPU to process.





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