The exact quote by Andrew Tanenbaum is: "Never underestimate the
bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Randall Munroe has addressed the issue! :
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
On Wed, 31 May 2023, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:01 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards
hurtling down the highway?
This is actually a compelling thought.
My answer: a lot.
With regards to punched cards: I imagine I converted about 200,000 during
the days when I provided that service, equalling an astounding 16 MEGABYTES
of data(!!!!!!!)
An addendum (and true story): I once converted 50,000 punched cards
containing names of the dead, for Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland,
California.
Sellam
