tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post1078908707912312803..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): 4.5 megabytes of dataMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-56133792296189654912017-11-09T13:15:26.371-06:002017-11-09T13:15:26.371-06:00regardless of how many data units that pile physic...regardless of how many data units that pile physically represents, you would have a heck of a time making sure that they are read in in order.<br /><br />I-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-53801076509292334112017-11-09T08:35:47.953-06:002017-11-09T08:35:47.953-06:00And generally the first 7 bytes were empty and the...And generally the first 7 bytes were empty and the last was a continuation character so 72 usable bytes makes 4.5MBytes<br /><br />However if it's stored as ascii then you dont get a full byte for each character.<br /><br />If it was stored as binary then indeed one could get the full 4.77 Megabytes.charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11911321005558820134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-28990189941909043662017-11-09T01:10:58.230-06:002017-11-09T01:10:58.230-06:00Megabytes, most likely. If they are standard IBM c...Megabytes, most likely. If they are standard <a href="http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/IBM_card" rel="nofollow">IBM cards</a>, each of them contains a maximum of 80 "bytes" (actually, more like "btwelves", as they consist of 12 bits, not 8). So 62,500 full cards would hold 62,500 * 80 = 5,000,000 bytes, or about 4.77 (binary) Megabytes.Drabkikkerhttp://drabkikker.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-54944193216010212352017-11-09T00:32:41.564-06:002017-11-09T00:32:41.564-06:00Is that megabytes, or megabits?Is that megabytes, or megabits?xoxoxoBrucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04512934465987061068noreply@blogger.com