Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Tony Duell]

> 
> > They don't say how fast, but imagine how long it would take to read
> > 2000Gb at paper tape speeds :-)
> 
> I'll read that as 2*10^11 bytes. A good paper tape reader reads 10^3 

OOops. I missed a 0. It's 2*10^12 bytes.

> bytes/second. So it would take 2*10^8 seconds to read it. Now, there are 
> about 3*10^7 seconds in a year, so it would take about 6 or 7 years to 
> read in that much data.

Which makes it 60+ years... Hmmm... May I use 10 paper tape readers in 
parallel :-)

> 
> Which is slow, but not impossibly slow!
> 
> -tony
> 

-tony