Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

Storage, internal, ongoing, a semiconductor, available, ROM – Read Only Memory, RAM - Read Write Memory, the acronym, to distinguish, to access, sequential, substantial, quoted, to require, mercury, a "flip-flop", to elaborate, available.

2. While reading the text you will come across a number of international words. Try to guess what Ukrainian words they remind of you:

Normal, the acronym, an origin, minimal, machines, graphics, displays, byte, bit, popular, technology, magnetic, a disk, gigabyte.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) There are primary and secondary storage units. 2) Data as well as instructions must flow into and out of primary storage. 3) Therefore slower, less ex­pensive storage units are available for computer systems. 4) These units are called secondary storage. 5) Data are stored in them in the same binary codes as in main storage and are made avail­able to main storage as needed. 6) It was used to distinguish main memory from secondary storage like tapes. 7) Many different technologies have been used. 8) Repeated again and again, these can be built up into integrated circuits that hold millions of bytes. 9) Individual memory chips with as much as 4 million bytes of storage capacity can now be purchased.