MP3 on punched cards (was RE: 1" paper tape buy ?)

[Andrew Burton]

No, by the time you had Vista up and running it would either have crashed and you would have to start again, or you just had a powercut during loading... reminds me of my Spectrum days :)


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk


--- On Thu, 26/2/09, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
From: Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com>
Subject: MP3 on punched cards (was RE: 1" paper tape buy ?)
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 9:18 PM

And of course, by the time you'd read all those cards you would have stopped
to do maintenance on the card reader a couple dozen times....  -- Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
> bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Loewen
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:12 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: 1" paper tape buy ?
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> > Didn't someone once work out that to store a single MP3 you'd
need a
> stack of
> > 80-column cards ten miles high?
>
>     Assuming a 6MB MP3 file and 40 bytes per card:
>
>     6 * 1048576 = 6291456 bytes
>     / 40 bytes per card = 157286.4 (157285) cards
>     * .178mm card thickness = 27996.73 mm high
>     / 25.4mm per inch = 1102.233465 inches
>     / 12 =  91.85278871 (91.85) feet
>
>
> Mike Loewen                             mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> Old Technology  http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/