Tidbit: In the volume of a standard desktop hard drive today you used to be able to store just over 17 Kb of data on punch cards. Now it is 1-4 Tb, a change of 8 orders of magnitude...
Andy On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bill Woody <[email protected]> wrote: > Did I leave my punch cards at the last meeting? > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Didn't see the size of the 'standard' for the cart they are going to use. >> >> LTO-7? Naw, I think LTO was designed to end at 6, but that was a few >> years ago when I was learning about LTO. >> >> The first 1T tape cart I saw was a 2" wide phillips like cassette (but >> about a foot long in the long dimension). It was a monster. In the '80 if >> I remember not-wrong :) The 'cartridge robot' was a thing we could walk >> into. It was at Amoco, and they kept 3D seismic data on them. Nothing for >> little data stuff like IT used. >> >> >> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Sony claims a breakthrough: >>> >>> >>> http://www.itworld.com/storage/416783/sony-develops-tape-tech-could-lead-185-tb-cartridges >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ><> ... Jack >> >> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 >> "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - >> Henry J. Tillman >> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - >> Albert Einstein >> "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral >> Grace Hopper, USN >> "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - >> " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 >> "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin >> Terma >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
