Bit savers is only 267 gigs? On Apr 21, 2017 12:25 PM, "Rob Jarratt via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > > > My back of the envelope calculation comes to approximately > > > 4 million miles of paper tape. > > > > I think you're out by a factor of 10.... 267*10^9 bytes, divide by 10 as > there are > > 10 bytes to the inch on paper tape, and convert to miles. I get just > over 400,000 > > miles. > > > > Agreed, I measured a piece of paper tape I have here and got a figure of > 0.9 inches per 10 bytes, so clearly just a bit of finger trouble somewhere > in my calculation. Still, almost enough for a round trip to the moon. > > Regards > > Rob > > > > My rule of thumb is that a full reel of 1" paper tape is 100k bytes So > 10 for a > > megabyte > > 10000 for a gigabyte > > 2,670,000 for all of bitsavers. Perhaps nearer 3 million as it's an > > approximation.... > > > > > >
