WHAT IS A BIT WORTH. |
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| by Don Steffen |
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| IF you are a farmer think about this: If there were 16 bits in one square
inch it would take 512 square inches for 1 kilobyte and 524,288 sq/in or
3641 sq/ft for a megabyte and 3,728,384 sq/ft or 35.4 acres for 1 gigabyte .
For the 40 gigs in most new computers it would need 1416 acres ! |
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| IF you are highway traveler think about this: At 8 bits per inch of length ,
1 kilobyte would take 1024 inches or 185 feet and 1 megabyte would take
87,337 feet or 1.65 miles and 1 gigabyte would take 1689 miles. For the
40gigs in many computers it would take 67,584 miles- almost 3 times around
the earth.! |
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| IF you are a trucker think about this: If 1 bit weighed 1 ounce then 1
kilobyte would weigh 8192 ounces or 512 pounds and 1 megabyte would weigh 524,288 pounds or 262 tons and 1 gigabyte would weigh 268,168 tons. For the
40 gigs in many computers it would weigh 10,726,720 tons and would take
268,168 40ton semi-trailer loads to haul. At 16 semi-trucks per mile it would
be a string 16,760 miles long! |
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| IF you are a banker think about this: If 1 bit were worth 1cent then 1
kilobyte would be worth $81.92 and 1 megabyte would be worth $83,886.08 and 1
gigabyte would be worth $85,899,345.92 and 40 gigs would be worth
$3,435,973,836.80 !!! |
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| Even the TI99 /4a would be worth $5,242.88
( WAS Gates thinking like this??? :-) |
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