I have always described ram as the notes on a notepad and the harddrive
storage as a filecabinet.  When the notepad gets full, the information
must be filed away.  And if you need information that is not on your
notepad, you must go get it from the file cabinet.  Hope it helps.

Elizabeth Boston wrote:

> I have to give a speech explaining the difference between disk
> space and Ram memory. While I understand this topic, I have not
> yet come up with an explanation that my 13 year old daughter can
> grasp.
> Does anyone have an easy to understand analogy for how ram works?
>
>      Elizabeth Boston
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