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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
Message-ID: <1067@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 15:29:40 EST
Article-I.D.: osiris.1067
Posted: Mon Apr 20 15:29:40 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 03:17:37 EST
References: <3810013@nucsrl.UUCP> <28200016@ccvaxa> <109@hobbes.UUCP>
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Summary: huh?

In article <109@hobbes.UUCP>, root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
> ( Paraphrased from an article in the Capital Times, March 1987)
> .... 
> 2 Tera Bytes of storage.  (For comparison
> shopping, note that this is equivalent to 40,000,000 9-Track tapes,
> 4,000,000,000 Floppy Disks, a stack of paper ....

I can't speak for the stack of paper, but according to my calculations,
2T/40,000,000 is about 54976 and 2T/4,000,000,000 is about 550.  Now, if
they're talking *paper* tape, then maybe I can figure the 54976, but hell,
even an RX01 holds more than 550 bytes!!  Either I'm off by an order of
magnitude (or three) or somebody else is.

John, did you seriously mistype these numbers or is this really what was
in the article?  I could say something here about using marketing numbers
without independent verification, but I had probably better shut up... :-)

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