26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
1:15 p.m.
I thought 80-column cards were 80 bytes? One byte per column? I've
never actually used them, so if somebody could explain to me that
would be interesting.
Still, a ridiculously large number of cards :)
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mike Loewen
<mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
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
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