30 May
2003
30 May
'03
3:24 p.m.
According to Glen Ditchfield:
How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be?
Well, 2^30/80 is 13,421,773 cards. Anyone remember how many cards fit in one of those big flat boxes they came in? If it was 5000, it would take 2,685 of these boxes to store a gig. What weight and volume that would occupy, I couldn't say at this point. Trouble with us old timers is our memory starts to fail. :-P Anyone still have one of those big flat boxes of cards?
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)