Since it mentions video disc players as 10^10 bits... 5gb of data (encoded as digital audio) really could be stored on a single vhs in the 70s: https://www.you

Since it mentions video disc players as 10^10 bits... 5gb of data (encoded as digital audio) really could be stored on a single vhs in the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY although computers didn't leverage it at the time. I guess i/o would be impossibly slow.