Re: USENET on a tape

[jon@balder.us.dell.com (Jon Boede)]

Alexander Chislenko <sasha@cs.umb.edu> writes:
>    Jeremy Porter writes:
>  
> > ... Usenet traffic being rated at some 21gigabytes a year
> > (traffic through UUnet) considering the low information value
> > of the vast majority of it, no one will be interested in storing it.
>  
>    Wait a minute...
>    How much would it cost to store all this info?
> a few hundred thousand dollars a year?

Exabyte is coming out with a 25gb 8mm drive, so storing all that traffic for a
year will cost you about $8.95. :-)

Jon

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