26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
1:30 p.m.
No, by the time you had Vista up and running it would either have crashed and you would
have to start again, or you just had a powercut during loading... reminds me of my
Spectrum days :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
--- On Thu, 26/2/09, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
From: Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com>
Subject: MP3 on punched cards (was RE: 1" paper tape buy ?)
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 9:18 PM
And of course, by the time you'd read all those cards you would have stopped
to do maintenance on the card reader a couple dozen times.... -- Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Loewen
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:12 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 1" paper tape buy ?
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> Didn't someone once work out that to store a single MP3 you'd
need a
stack of
80-column cards ten miles high?
Assuming a 6MB MP3 file and 40 bytes per card:
6 * 1048576 = 6291456 bytes
/ 40 bytes per card = 157286.4 (157285) cards
* .178mm card thickness = 27996.73 mm high
/ 25.4mm per inch = 1102.233465 inches
/ 12 = 91.85278871 (91.85) feet
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/