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Article #4186Re: Data Volume
From: steve emmerson
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 23:01
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 23:01
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I heard "500,000 books" on the shuttle launch TV program today. Sounds like somebody divided the number of data bytes by the number of bytes in an average book. -- Steve Emmerson Inet: steve@umigw.miami.edu [128.116.10.1] SPAN: miami::emmerson (host 3074::) emmerson%miami.span@star.stanford.edu UUCP: ...!ncar!umigw!steve emmerson%miami.span@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov "Computers are like God in the Old Testament: lots of rules and no mercy"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!steve From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson) Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Data Volume Message-ID: <245@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 4 May 89 23:01:35 GMT References: <3801@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> Reply-To: steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Miami Lines: 8