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#3 What is a Byte?

Kopec Explains Software

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What's the Difference Between Memory and Computers?

The original Macintosh had 400 kilobyte floppy disks and 128 kilobytes of RAM. It would be normal by the mid-1990s to have hundreds of megabytes of storage space. And then we look today about 20, 25 years later, and here we are with terabytes of storage and many, many gigabytes of RAM.

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