---- Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/2/2016 1:13 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 07:29 AM, Bruce Layne wrote: > >> > >> On 08/31/2016 10:22 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >>> Surprising that just for the fun of doing it, someone hasn't built a > >>> punched tape reader for a 3D printer. > >> > >> Have you SEEN 10MB of paper tape?!? :-o > >> > >> The bits on paper tape are about .1" in diameter. That's a lot of paper > >> tape. > > 15.8 miles of paper actually. > > > > The spool would be over 35 inches in diameter and weigh 115 lbs. > > > Yet it is hardly a blip on an $8 - 32 gig stick drive. The old > days of 360K floppies and those newfangled hi-capacity 720 K and 1.44 > meg floppies seem so long ago.... You could stick a 1.44 meg floppy > in your pocket! That was crazy! .... > > Dave
I seem to recall "the Library of Congress" was the measuring stick for data, just like "Olympic swimming pool" is for volume. Of course scanned pages vs ASCII vs compressed ASCII make that vary a lot- and the LoC catalog was notably smaller in earlier decades. Danny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
