20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
9:35 a.m.
On 9/20/11 8:55 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Sep 2011 at 8:21, Al Kossow wrote:
Limiting factor is postprocessing and OCR time.
I just checked, and there are over 10000 documents scanned for
bitsavers but not processed.
And bitsavers is one of two archives I'm currently working on.
There are 14000 documents in the other one, which was started
about two years ago for internal CHM use.
here is the rate of growth of bitsavers since 2006
gb #pdfs
20060523 52 9328
20060728 9406
20061224 10287
20070214 10690
20070421 11082
20070911 12183
20071122 74 12386
20080321 88 14496
20091108 104 14987
20100122 105
20110401 19450
20110920 127 20615
It is currently around 130gb.
So you'd need to expand, what, 20-30 times to fill an inexpensive
consumer-level hard drive? :)