Andy Marken

We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the recent Southwest Computer Conference and to the dedicated volunteers who ensured the event was a success.

We were delighted at the volume and depth of interest in the Q&A session. It just proves our premise that boomers/boomers plus are a key - very key market segment that manufacturers need to stay in touch with … constantly.

If for some reason you're interested in having our ppt presentation from the evening just let us know and …BAM!!! Yep we'll get you the complete set.

The question asked was “How big is a Zettabyte?” if we are now beginning to track content and information in this way.

Ok let's start from the bottom, up:

Byte - smallest tracked amount of data - basis for all discussion Kilobyte - 10 to the power of three bytes
Megabytes - 10 to the power of 6 bytes
Gigabytes - 10 to the power of 9 bytes
Terabytes - 10 to the power of 12 bytes or 1000GB
Petabytes - 10 to the power of 15 bytes
Exabytes - 10 to the power of 18 bytes or 1M TB
Zettabytes - 10 to the power of 21 bytes

The next higher capacity? Yottabytes.

It was indeed our pleasure though to meet with well over 250 people who are involved in PCs and who want to continually learn more and share that information/assistance with others.

Your groups and the teens/tweens are what make the industry go around and push so hard for acceptance and new technologies, new products.

We talked with and exchanged ideas/information with so many outstanding people we can't document it all.

I learned about United Through Reading's Grandparent Program at San Diego's Aging Summit. Their focus was on people in the military who faced separation from their families while on deployment. It has been such a success that the program is being expanded to include separated families outside the military. Here is a link to their website: www.unitedthroughreading,org/grandparent
http://www.unitedthroughreading,org/grandparent


You know of families in your area who are split up because of the conflict overseas that sends men and women over to do their part - however you feel about these wars.

Helping family members put together videos that can be sent to the deployed men/women is a great boost for people in harm's way. It's a great way for kids/family members to feel close to those who are overseas. It is a fantastic way for you to feel good - really good - about how your computer group is helping people from your community.
It will probably be one of the best things you do this year and please do it all year long. Thanks, we're very proud of the work you've done in the past and the work you're going to do going forward.

Andy Marken
Marken Communications
408-986-0100
andy@markencom.com