Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!umnd-cs!umn-cs!papowell From: papowell@umn-cs.UUCP (Patrick Powell) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32 Message-ID: <1497@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 14:24:13 EST Article-I.D.: umn-cs.1497 Posted: Sun Apr 19 14:24:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 23:38:20 EST References: <3810013@nucsrl.UUCP> <28200016@ccvaxa> Reply-To: papowell@umn-cs.UUCP (Patrick Powell) Distribution: world Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 29 In article <109@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes: >+---- Robin Lake writes the following in article <449@nitrex.UUCP> ---- >| >best, that would be 5 Tbytes in the space of a large disk drive. Yum. ;-) >+---- >( Paraphrased from an article in the Capital Times, March 1987) >At the Physical Sciences Lab at the Univ of Wisconsin there is a system >... uses more than 1,000 optical disks and a robot disk handler to give >2 Tera Bytes of storage. ...Note that this is equivalent to 40,000,000 9-Track tapes > Access time is less than 1 minute maximum for any platter. > The system should be able to be expanded by as > much as eight times, if they can find out what to do with all that data... > John Plocher UUCP: !uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher >============== Internet: plocher%hobbes.UUCP@uwvax.WISC.EDU >FidoNet: 121/0 BITNET: uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher@psuvax1 This is not much data. A quick, back of the terminal (no keypunch cards left), indicate that this is about the amount of information needed to record a years transactions on the stock market. Anybody want to try and estimate the number of Interbank transfers in a week? I know a small bank that uses over 10,000 tapes a year just for transaction logging alone. And as I recall, there are over 12,000 banking centers in the U.S.A. Patrick ("Million? Just a 15 meter by 15 meter square of M and M's") Powell P.S.= Kid set this up for a Science Fair. He had a hell of a good time giving them away. Sign over the exhibit was: can you eat a million? -- Patrick Powell, Dept. Computer Science, 136 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612)625-3543/625-4002