What’s this gent holding? A toaster? Farm equipment? Part of an engine? Wreckage from a destroyed tank? Nope — that’s 4KB of old-fashioned IBM memory. That’s enough to hold 12 per cent of my Facebook profile picture!
Editor-in-Chief of CNET Reviews Lindsey Turrentine discovered the rugged computer antique in her grandfather’s barn. Not a bad catch! Turrentine pointed out the wonderful irony that the image itself is 692KB — meaning she’d only need to find 172 more of these memory modules and a tractor trailer to transport the pic around. [Lindsey Turrentine]
Dave
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 7:15 AMimagine renting a blue ray in this scale… call a truck?
Guy
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:49 AMAccording to my maths you would need ~6.5 million of these to hold an entire single layer blu-ray disk.
Maybe a container ship…
Callum
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:44 AMAccording to my horrible math/guestemation;
One of those = 50cmx25cmx20cm = .025m³
6.5millon of those = 162500m³
A 40 foot shipping container having an area of 65m³
you would need around 2500 shipping containers for 1 blu-ray,
And a average shipping container holds 5000 x 40 foot containers.
you could have 2 blurays on one shipping container!
TSH
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:31 AMwe’ve sure come a long way, haven’t we? How old would that component be, maybe 60 years? 50?