The analogy I have used is a person and a filing cabinet.

The filing cabinet itself is the hard drive space. The more drawers, the
more stuff that can be stored in there.

The person is the memory (user of the filing cabinet.) The number of hands
the person has to hold items they take out of the filing cabinet is the
amount of memory (RAM).  A person with a whole bunch of hands can hold and
look at and shuffle a lot more stuff than a person with only one or two
hands.

Weird sounding, but it seems to get the point across to my clients.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Boston Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 06:51
>
> 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?

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