> > My back of the envelope calculation comes to approximately > > 4 million miles of paper tape. > > I think you're out by a factor of 10.... 267*10^9 bytes, divide by 10 as > there are > 10 bytes to the inch on paper tape, and convert to miles. I get just over > 400,000 > miles. >
Agreed, I measured a piece of paper tape I have here and got a figure of 0.9 inches per 10 bytes, so clearly just a bit of finger trouble somewhere in my calculation. Still, almost enough for a round trip to the moon. Regards Rob > My rule of thumb is that a full reel of 1" paper tape is 100k bytes So 10 for > a > megabyte > 10000 for a gigabyte > 2,670,000 for all of bitsavers. Perhaps nearer 3 million as it's an > approximation.... >
