Tidbit: In the volume of a standard desktop hard drive today you used to be
able to store just over 17 Kb of data on punch cards.  Now it is 1-4 Tb, a
change of 8 orders of magnitude...

Andy


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bill Woody <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did I leave my punch cards at the last meeting?
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Didn't see the size of the 'standard' for the cart they are going to use.
>>
>> LTO-7? Naw, I think LTO was designed to end at 6, but that was a few
>> years ago when I was learning about LTO.
>>
>> The first 1T tape cart I saw was a 2" wide phillips like cassette (but
>> about a foot long in the long dimension).  It was a monster.  In the '80 if
>> I remember not-wrong :)  The 'cartridge robot' was a thing we could walk
>> into.  It was at Amoco, and they kept 3D seismic data on them.  Nothing for
>> little data stuff like IT used.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Sony claims a breakthrough:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.itworld.com/storage/416783/sony-develops-tape-tech-could-lead-185-tb-cartridges
>>>
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