3 May
2009
3 May
'09
10:24 a.m.
I just noticed that the total size of the Bitsavers
archive seems
to have surpassed 100 Gigabytes in the past few days.
In historical storage units, that is 160000 miles, nearly one light
second, of paper tape.
Hmm, how big/high would the pile of chad be?
That is 1.25 Billion punched cards. At about 143 cards to the inch,
those punced cards would make a stack 137 miles high. Production of that
many cards would require three major deciduous forests, which by my
exchange
table is also the same as one ship's peanut.
That is 40000 RK05 carts. At about 10 pounds per cart, that's almost half
a million pounds of RK05's.
Great job, Al!
Tim.
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