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Hitachi To Produce 1 Terabyte Desktop Drives ...expected available late 2005.
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| 2005-04-04
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Posted on 04/04/2005 9:25:04 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
04/04/2005 11:05:11 AM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: JoJo Gunn
Oh yes....
A drum as Memory...IBM had a Drum memory for the IBM 650 computer....wrote a Fortran program for it that buried it!
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posted on
04/04/2005 11:32:09 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: JoJo Gunn; RadioAstronomer
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posted on
04/04/2005 11:34:09 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: All
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posted on
04/04/2005 11:37:29 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
04/04/2005 12:31:32 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm running what's nowadays considered dinky, an 800 meg Celeron, but something the government would have hunted me down and killed for once. I'm trying to imagine the equivalent number of tubes, and the heat.
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posted on
04/04/2005 12:43:30 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: JoJo Gunn
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posted on
04/04/2005 1:01:07 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Steely Tom
The Naked Sun
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; RadioAstronomer
A petabyte of storage is more than I can comprehendIt's about 40 times greater than the sum total of human literature.
(There are 500,000 characters (bytes) per book, on average, which is two books per Megabyte, or two thousand books/Gigabyte, or two million books per Terabyte. Around Fifty million books are known to have been published, ever; that's 25 Terabytes. Granted, not every book can be expressed in ASCII, but most of the books are in English, and 16-bit Unicode can handle the small remaining fraction. We haven't even considered compression; plain text compresses easily by a factor of 4.)
To: Physicist
Damn....
two thousand books/Gigabyte,I need to crank up my scanner and make some room around here.
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posted on
04/04/2005 1:20:31 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
04/04/2005 3:29:53 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: Centurion2000
However, a second petabyte derive could record every moment of life, in high-quality video, of the oldest person on earth. But why? Who would watch it?
Eventually petabyte drives could be used in place of memory
Do you mean RAM...or human memory?
I would think that you could start digitizing human minds with one of these things as well.
Uh - huh. And....what would be your input device for this process?
;-)
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:37:04 PM PDT
by
Musket
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