[RndTbl] Hey, old-timers!

[Peter C.J. Graham]

I just did the volume computation but don't have scales here to weigh
my card boxes (yes, I still have a few since they are great for
grocery lists). Sorry to not be able to provide that bit of trivia.

Peter

According to Gilles Detillieux:
> 
> 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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