Anyone remember floppy discs?
The big ones hold like 1.4mb of memory. The average video game these days is like 46.5GB. How many floppy disks would you need to install that?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
IG = 1 X 10^3 M, and 46.5Gb = 4.65 X 10 Gb.
So
(4.65 X 10^10) / (1.4 X 10^6) = 3.321 X 10^[10-6] = 3.321 X 10^4 = 33.21 X 10^3.
You can't have a fractional disc, so you'd need 34 000 floppy-discs.
I think that's correct though I suspect I've been too liberal with the indices' amplitudes - please, mathematicians among you, do verify or correct as necessary.
And lots of loading time.
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I recall seeing one computer at work that used 8-inch floppy-discs, but by then 5.25" was becoming the norm.
So
(4.65 X 10^10) / (1.4 X 10^6) = 3.321 X 10^[10-6] = 3.321 X 10^4 = 33.21 X 10^3.
You can't have a fractional disc, so you'd need 34 000 floppy-discs.
I think that's correct though I suspect I've been too liberal with the indices' amplitudes - please, mathematicians among you, do verify or correct as necessary.
And lots of loading time.
.....
I recall seeing one computer at work that used 8-inch floppy-discs, but by then 5.25" was becoming the norm.
