Read this on the evil web site
Let's assume we need all of a 650Meg ISO image to instal Windows XP. That's 650x1024^2 or 681,574,400 byes. A standard Hollerith punch card can hold 80 bytes, so we need 8,519,680 cards.
Big assumption here, if someone has better data please chime in - but I'm going to assume 75 Hollerith cards stack to one inch, so we're talking 113,596 or so inches worth of cards, 9,466 feet.
Assuming a semi trailer is 28 feet long, that's 338 stacks. Which is as far as I'm going to take it, but it's not a full truckload.
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
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What are you talking about? What article on Slashdot? Why didn't you link to it? And why are you talking about a punch card edition of XP?
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
Manip wrote:What are you talking about? What article on Slashdot? Why didn't you link to it? And why are you talking about a punch card edition of XP?
No idea what article, it was in my meta moderation list today, and I didn't care that much.
It's a rough estimate of how many punched cards it would take to store a data CD
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irascian
Irascible Ian
blowdart wrote:
No idea what article, it was in my meta moderation list today, and I didn't care that much.
It's a rough estimate of how many punched cards it would take to store a data CD
And to us old farts who actually wrote our first programs on punched cards it serves as a timely reminder of how much things have changed.
(We had a punched card system at Richard Taunton 6th form college in Southampton and used to submit them overnight and get printouts and returned cards that we could correct the next morning - does wonders for improving your programming skills when you know you can only have one 'run' a day with an assignment deadline at the end of the week!) -
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Since when Slashdot is "evil" for Your, tarry? Anyway "evilness" is in an eye of beer holder smoking-room's
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Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything
I bet now that "Reply in Ink" button is one of those things we all wish was never invented
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I rather enjoy how the handwriting recognition software mangles the tooltips on the ink. It gives me the "all your base are belong to us" warm fuzzies.
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Comic Strip Blogger
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cybermogellan: I also wish something: that gusts in cg forum could be rated by other forum members _ as it is in "the hive" forum... BCN: do you have Tablet pc?
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