Bitsavers size in historical storage units

[Ed Groenenberg]

> I just noticed that the total size of the Bitsavers archive seems
> to have surpassed 100 Gigabytes in the past few days.
>
> In historical storage units, that is 160000 miles, nearly one light
> second, of paper tape.

Hmm, how big/high would the pile of chad be?

>
> That is 1.25 Billion punched cards. At about 143 cards to the inch,
> those punced cards would make a stack 137 miles high. Production of that
> many cards would require three major deciduous forests, which by my
> exchange
> table is also the same as one ship's peanut.
>
> That is 40000 RK05 carts. At about 10 pounds per cart, that's almost half
> a million pounds of RK05's.
>
> Great job, Al!
>
> Tim.
>


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