On Sunday, July 1, 2018, 11:09:34 PM PDT, juan <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:22:03 -0400
grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
" as you know grarpamp (or maybe you dont know?) the size of bitcoins ledger
is ~200 gbytes at the moment. "
On Amazon, I see a 200 GB micro SD card being sold for $71. A 256 GB micro SD
card is sold for $120. Rather spendy, but within the realm of possibility.
About "a Gigabyte:: In my college days, 1978, we had a comedic, fictional
dormitory organization called "TWePOE" ("Third West Power Elite"). I, the
only one with a functional personal computer on my hallway (my own homebrew
"Bellyache I", a comedic take on the famous "ILLIAC 4), my room became the
"GBDSC", short for "Gigabyte Data Storage Center", a subsidiary of the
organization "MOIA", short for "Ministry of Information Abuse", whose ominous
motto was, "We've got a file on YOU!"
I chose "Gigabyte" because, at that time, it was such an inconceivably
fantasticly large amount of data storage so as to be awe-inspiring. (An 8 inch
SSSD floppy disk stored a grand 240 kilobytes of data, so it would have taken
more than 4100 of them to house a full gigabyte.)
Today, the idea that I could buy 1 million times the storage of one of those
240 kilobyte floppies, held in a wafer smaller than my pinky-fingernail,
remains amazing to me.
Jim Bell
