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Re: RFC 1149


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:24:36 -0400

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:00:35 -0400, "Mike." said:

Oddly, prehaps, those punchcards on the stagecoaches probably will
outlast any magnetic media we have at our disposal today....

Here's a picture of an estimated 4.3G of data on punch cards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg

20 rows of pallets, each row is 15 pallets, stacked 2 high, 45 boxes
of 2,000 to the pallet.

One has to wonder if those pallets are still there....


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