2 Sep
2011
2 Sep
'11
4:12 p.m.
On 02/09/2011 21:40, Adrian Stoness wrote:
wonder how big a peac of tape u would need to store a
1meg jpeg in octal
would be let along a raw file lol
Well that's easy to work out. Standard 8-level tape is 10 chars/inch
and if each byte in the file is encoded as three octal characters you
need 3,145,728 characters. Just under 8km of tape.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York