[zeugma]

Recently saw a dated picture of an IBM storage unit with 5 megabytes capacity on a forklift being delivered. Cost unknown but for perspective one picture on your phone or one song would max it out.

Was it this?

One interesting statistic about data sizes, IMO is the fact that the Bible is just about 5 MB of ASCII text uncompressed. It makes the amount of data you are talking about something that is more easy to relate to.

[Tunehead54]

Belated thanks for tracking that photo down. I think the one I saw was actually street level going into the building but dimensions, era and capacity seem right.

While the Bible comparison is apt for storage, my comparison of a single MP3 or a single cell phone photo completely using up that 5MB was meant to be relative to anyone with a phone.

If we go out for a beach walk or a sunset I don’t think anything of taking 20 pictures or having 500 MP3s on my phone. Just saying. Thanks again for the pic.

;-)