When we open an app to view a photo we have taken, or listen to our favourite song, the computer gets the information that has been stored in its memory.
A computer’s memory is where it stores the information that we can use.
The information is stored in the form of 1s and 0s. This is called binary.
When we want to open the file, the application changes the information which has been stored as binary, back into information we can understand on our digital devices like music, words and pictures.
We never see the binary code at all.
Computers, laptops and tablets store our information in their .
A digital device may have memory that is:
- inside the device
- on a removable storage device
- in the cloud
