1 Jun
2023
1 Jun
'23
2:29 a.m.
The exact quote by Andrew Tanenbaum is: "Never underestimate the
bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Randall Munroe has addressed the issue! :
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
On Wed, 31 May 2023, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:01 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards
>> hurtling down the highway?
>>
>
> This is actually a compelling thought.
>
> My answer: a lot.
>
> With regards to punched cards: I imagine I converted about 200,000 during
> the days when I provided that service, equalling an astounding 16 MEGABYTES
> of data(!!!!!!!)
>
> An addendum (and true story): I once converted 50,000 punched cards
> containing names of the dead, for Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland,
> California.
>
> Sellam