Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[David V. Corbin]

Interesting the differences between Tony's and Han's calculations...
taking into account 10^11 vs 10^12 and 10^3 vs 1.2*10^3....nope still a big
difference....
Getting out the slide rule.....

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
>>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
>>> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:45 PM
>>> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>>> Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
>>> 
>>> > 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 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 is slow, but not impossibly slow!
>>> 
>>> -tony