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From: desj@lime.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
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Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 17:02:33 EST
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In article <109@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>Billed as the largest computer 'memory' in the world, the system uses more
>than 1,000 optical disks and a robot disk handler to give 2 Tera Bytes of
>storage.  (For comparison shopping, note that this is equivalent to ...
>4,000,000,000 Floppy Disks ...

   Come on now.  Please at least think about what you are saying before
you post it to the whole world.  If 2 x 10^12 bytes were the equal of 4 x 10^9
floppy disks, then that would mean 500 bytes on each disk.  Somehow I think
our technology has advanced slightly beyond that.

   -- David desese>