> > ---- John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > On a side note, I heard yesterday that, in the '80's, a > university in > > Europe transmitted an 863GB file over a 16800km link in > just over 1000 seconds! > > That must have been the sum of all data held on all computers > at the time.
It would certainly have occupied a lot of space. In the early 80s I worked for an international brewinng company where we had an ICL installation very much like this one: http://pink-mouse-productions.com/icl/2900.htm Note the size and capacity of the disk packs - 200mb on a thing the size of a washing machine. You'd need 4315 of them to store 863 Gb. Even if the data was stored on tape you'd need an enormous number of decks - you certainly wouldn't be able to swap the tapes quickly enough to transmit at that speed. We had about 20 of them to run an sizable business iirc. Today in my phone I have a micro SD card, smaller than my smallest fingernail, which has 80x the capacity of each of those disk packs. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
