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Article #621742Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:08
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:08
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On 4/5/2018 3:49 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:49:01 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: >> >> On 4/5/2018 10:53 AM, Quadibloc wrote: >>> On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 4:16:12 PM UTC-6, Al Kossow wrote: >>>> On 4/4/18 3:02 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>>>> article in LIFE magazine about putting the bible on a computer. >>> >>>> It's actually about using a Univac computer to to produce a Concordance for the Bible. >>> >>> Of course, putting the Bible on a computer in the plainer sense also happened. >>> Thus, a Bible with the RSV text was typeset using an ICT 1500 computer that I >>> mentioned in this newsgroup once. >>> >> >> ISTM the Holy Bible (Old and New testaments) in ASCII requires less >> than five megabytes of storage spce. That sounds rivial today, but of >> course it was *not* trivial in the early 1970's. ISTM that five >> megabytes requires something like 62,500 80-column punch cards. > > I was (and think I mentioned that already here) I was talking to a pal > in 1987, that I heard about a Gigabyte data medium coming in the near > future. That it would just use 2% of its space if you put the Bible on > it. The future is bright! :-) Well the 90s and thereafter got boring though. > Even at five megabytes, the Bible could fit on a data CD over 125 times! That's less than 1% of the space on the CD... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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