> On Apr 21, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >>> My back of the envelope calculation comes to approximately >>> 4 million miles of paper tape. >> >> I think you're out by a factor of 10.... 267*10^9 bytes, divide by 10 as >> there are >> 10 bytes to the inch on paper tape, and convert to miles. I get just over >> 400,000 >> miles. >> > > Agreed, I measured a piece of paper tape I have here and got a figure of 0.9 > inches per 10 bytes, so clearly just a bit of finger trouble somewhere in my > calculation. Still, almost enough for a round trip to the moon. > > Regards > > Rob > > >> My rule of thumb is that a full reel of 1" paper tape is 100k bytes So 10 >> for a >> megabyte >> 10000 for a gigabyte >> 2,670,000 for all of bitsavers. Perhaps nearer 3 million as it's an >> approximation.... >> > > >
ASCII correct? Not Murray, Western Union,Flexowriter or other ? Anyone care to estimate how large the pile of chads will be? Jerry [email protected]
