21 Apr
2017
21 Apr
'17
10:24 a.m.
My back of the
envelope calculation comes to approximately
4 million miles of paper tape.
I think you're out by a factor of 10.... 267*10^9 bytes, divide by 10 as there are
10 bytes to the inch on paper tape, and convert to miles. I get just over 400,000
miles.
My rule of thumb is that a full reel of 1" paper
tape is 100k bytes So 10 for a
megabyte
10000 for a gigabyte
2,670,000 for all of bitsavers. Perhaps nearer 3 million as it's an
approximation....