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At 25:15: "More than 8 million words can be stored and sent back by each disk pack". Each disk looks the size of a vinyl record, and there are a whole stack of

At 25:15: "More than 8 million words can be stored and sent back by each disk pack". Each disk looks the size of a vinyl record, and there are a whole stack of them in a disk pack.

Avshalom 4y ago
Well if we say a word is ~4 letters and a space, plus a bit of overhead for the file system, that's a 64 mb a pack, so probably something like a 4 or 8 mb disk, which feels about right for the time
- lupire 4y ago
  MB. B is 8b