A curious child looks at a completely dark laptop whose power plug lies disconnected beside the desk.

How does a computer remember when the power is gone?

tap the dark laptop

The screen goes dark. Every spark stops. Later, your saved file can open again. Where did it wait while the computer was off?

A computer cannot tuck away a whole picture. It turns the picture into a pattern of tiny cells. Each cell has only two choices: dark or lit. Tap the card.

tap the card

A pattern still needs something to hold every cell. One holder needs fresh electric nudges. Another clicks each cell into a physical position. Tap to compare.

tap both holders

That gives a computer two places: a teal thinking desk for the copy changing now, and a violet save drawer for the copy you ask it to keep.

The same child works at a laptop beside quick teal cards while one gold card travels toward a violet drawer.

The desk is quick. The drawer waits for Save.

Drive the memory machine. Choose a word for the teal desk. The violet drawer stays as it was until you tap Save this copy.

thinking desk

HI

save drawer

HI
word on the desk: HI
HIBUG

Here is a new case. Follow the order carefully — the answer is not shown.

Now the power is about to go off.

Follow the two versions.

You saved CAT, then changed the screen to CAP without saving again. After the power goes off and the computer starts again, which word opens?