Subject: Re: paper tape

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Quigg)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 22:42:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
John Wilson <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Inmac used to sell the mylar stuff.  They had quite a fine paper tape
>section in the catalog, back when there was a market for it.  I never
>felt the need to order any, my 8/E came with 11.9 miles of DEC paper tape!
>
>John
>

 Let's see now... 11.9 x 5280 x 12 x 10 = 7539840. That's 7.53 Mbytes!!

   To read on  ASR33 @ 10 cps = 753984 seconds = 8.72 days!
  High speed reader @ 300 cps = 25123  seconds = 0.3  days  (7 hours).

No wonder someone invented disks!

Cheers,
Steve Quigg.