At 08:31 AM 12/3/98 -0500, Brent Eades so eloquently stated:
>On 2 Dec 98, Michael A. Stone wrote:
>
>> counting both CDs and Zip disks, the bugger
>> can comfortably haul 2.1 terabytes of information from place to place.
>
>Which (speaking of trivia) is more data than the entire Internet carried
>over US backbones in a month, as of late 1991 (2.0 terabytes.) The
>figure is now closer (well, as of Dec/97) to 3,000 terabytes a month.
>
>Trivia heaped upon trivia: "3,000 terabytes" would be more correctly
>expressed as "3 petabytes". That is a rather big number. Though not as
>big as the high end of the metric scale, which ends at "yotta" -- a
>yottabyte, were there such a thing, would contain
>1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (10 to the 24th.)
>
Definitely where Seinfeld got their yada, yada, yada ;-).
George
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