Labels:crt screen | hakham | monitor | plant | sky | stairs | windowpane OCR: COMPUTERFILES ANDI ATASTORAGE InfoWeb Word R ecords OW much can YoU pack into small : Iarea? 1968 Frederick Watt hand- printed 452 characters on piece of paper the size of postage stamp. Ir 1983 Tsutomu Ishii of Japan wrote the Japanese characters for Tokyo, Japan on human hair few vears later Surendra Apharya of Jaipur, India managed to squeeze 241 characters on single grain of rice. That seems like 101 of data packed l into a small area but computer can store hundreds of times much data the same area F0F example an entire encyclopedia can fit on single 5-inch CD- ROM LABS How can computers store so much daea in such small area? How can you search through all that data to find what vou want? Can you change data once it is stored? What happens it you run out space? CLF In this chapter you ...
