Bytes to meters of tape
by pcaron on 10/29/04 at 04:50:52
While working with a Japanese manufacturer's machine control, I inquired as to the size of its computer's internal memory. The reply was in units of meters of tape - punch tape. Amazing.
FWIW, here's the conversions the manufacturer gave me. I suspect approximations, since a piece of punch tape I found measured out to an even 12 bytes per inch, but there you are.
