13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
8:16 a.m.
Interesting the differences between Tony's and Han's calculations...
taking into account 10^11 vs 10^12 and 10^3 vs 1.2*10^3....nope still a big
difference....
Getting out the slide rule.....
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
>> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:45 PM
>> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>> Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
>>
>> > They don't say how fast, but imagine how long it would
>> take to read
>> > 2000Gb at paper tape speeds :-)
>>
>> I'll read that as 2*10^11 bytes. A good paper tape reader
>> reads 10^3 bytes/second. So it would take 2*10^8 seconds to
>> read it. Now, there are about 3*10^7 seconds in a year, so
>> it would take about 6 or 7 years to read in that much data.
>>
>> Which is slow, but not impossibly slow!
>>
>> -tony