Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Aug 13 14:50:49 2004

>
> > 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
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