On 3 June 2016 at 22:21, Swift Griggs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Mike Stein wrote: >> How many station wagons full of 9-track tapes would fit into a (20) >> cigarette box filled with microSD cards? > > Station wagon full of tapes = 51 GB > Pack of stogies full of SD = 2816 GB > > It's not fair using 9-track tapes, but let's go with it.
I actually used to drive from A to B or the other way with a car (sometimes a station wagon) with tapes. 1" tapes, usually. This was in Italy, and at the time (don't know if it's changed since then) I was required to keep paperworks not too different from customs forms, with the tapes. The reason was that to transport an amount of data over a certain limit required documentation, according to the law. Those very large spools of 1" tapes could hold quite an amount of data, for the time, thus the documentation. I didn't need it for just a few CCTs.
