[RndTbl] Hey, old-timers!

[Peter C.J. Graham]

Assuming fully used cards (80 columns with 1 char/column) and 2000
cards per box where each box is 18"x8"x3.5". You would need
(1024*1024*1024)/(80*2000)=6,710.8864 boxes. Given the volume of a box
as 504 cubic inches, that would be 3,382,286.7456 cubic inches in total.
1,957.34187 cubic feet. Assuming 8 foot walls, this would be enough to
almost fill a 16 foot by 16 foot room floor to ceiling.

Unless my calculations are off, of course (which is possible since I'm
a systems guy!) :->

Peter

According to Glen Ditchfield:
> 
> How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be?
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