Comment on Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]Comments−anon9464yAt 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.−Avshalom4yWell 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−lupire4yMB. B is 8b
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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 them in a disk pack.
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
MB. B is 8b