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>> I found the following quote on Wikipedia:
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>> "The theoretical capacity of a Boeing 747 filled with Blu-Ray discs is
>> 595,520,000 Gigabits, resulting in a 37,034.826 Gb/s flight from New
>> York to Los Angeles."
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>> Somebody bothered to compute this?!? o_O
>
> Or as a uni lecturer said to my data comms class (circa mid 1980's):
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> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a ute full of tapes speeding down
> the highway"
Heh, yeah!
> At the time we were learning about synchronous protocols operating over
> 1200bps links.
I wonder... What's the bandwidth of a punch-card reader/writer?
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