31 May
2023
31 May
'23
10:51 p.m.
Believe it or not I thought of that and tons of paper tape
Here are some other some other good comparisons:
Reels of DECtape
Reels of magnetic tape.
300 baud audio cassettes.
Hours to print on a 110 baud Teletype
Miles of Teletype paper or fanfold paper
Tons of drum storage
14" platters end to end or tonnage
Tons of 6810 (128 x 8 bit) or 2102 (1Kx1) memory chips
length in HP-41C magnetic card strips
Miles of ultrasonic memory wire
Number of bubbles of bubble memory
Tons of 1 bit memory tubes (and their current draw)
I guess that's enough frivolity for now.
On 5/31/2023 5:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 5/31/23 13:33, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I think I will just convert file sizes to lengths
of paper tape for
comparison:
1K 102.4"
10K 85'
100K 853'
1M 1.6 Miles
10M 16.5 Miles
100M 165 Miles
1G 1,695 Miles
10G 16,947 Miles
100G 6.8 Earth Circumferences
1T 69.8 Earth Circumferences
How about converting that to tons of 80
column punched cards?
--Chuck