13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
7:50 a.m.
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 makes it 60+ years... Hmmm... May I use 10 paper tape readers in
parallel :-)
Which is slow, but not impossibly slow!
-tony
-tony