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Jaz 2GB (Jaz 2GB)
The Jaz 2GB doubled the capacity of the original Jaz drive, offering significant storage for video, audio, and engineering applications. It appealed to professional users pushing the limits of late-1990s computing—desktop publishing houses, video editors, and 3D modelers. Despite its innovation, the Jaz 2GB was ultimately overtaken by more reliable, cheaper technologies such as CDs, DVDs, and eventually USB flash drives. Jaz drives occupy a unique place in storage history as powerful but short-lived solutions.
Character (character)
A character is not a fixed quantity of bytes but rather a conceptual unit representing a single textual symbol. Historically, characters corresponded to one byte under ASCII, allowing for 256 distinct values. With the rise of Unicode, characters now require variable-length encoding—from 1 to 4 bytes in UTF-8, or fixed widths in UTF-16 and UTF-32. This flexibility allows representation of all human writing systems, mathematical symbols, emojis, and historic scripts. Characters are the foundation of text processing, natural-language computing, and human-computer communication. Software engineering, databases, and web technologies must carefully distinguish between characters and bytes to avoid encoding errors and data loss.