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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1994-06-16  |  2.9 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 18 seconds
Transcription: You may think of your computer as one big memory bag, but all PCs actually have two ways of storing data. The first is on drives or disks. The second is on a variety of memory chips. Let's look at disks and drives first. All PCs have at least one floppy drive. It may not seem very floppy, but that's just the hard outer case. Inside where the data is stored, the disk is made of flexible plastic coated with magnetic film Another drive that just about everybody has is the hard drive. It's the real storage workhorse of your PC. The disks in this drive are made of a hard metal or glass. Because it ...