On 3 June 2016 at 22:21, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Mike Stein wrote:
How many station wagons full of 9-track tapes
would fit into a (20)
cigarette box filled with microSD cards?
Station wagon full of tapes = 51 GB
Pack of stogies full of SD = 2816 GB
It's not fair using 9-track tapes, but let's go with it.
I actually used to drive from A to B or the other way with a car
(sometimes a station wagon) with tapes. 1" tapes, usually. This was in
Italy, and at the time (don't know if it's changed since then) I was
required to keep paperworks not too different from customs forms, with
the tapes. The reason was that to transport an amount of data over a
certain limit required documentation, according to the law. Those
very large spools of 1" tapes could hold quite an amount of data, for
the time, thus the documentation. I didn't need it for just a few
CCTs.