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Let me think, I was in telecommunications for over 50 years and programmed my first computer in 1963. When Florence and I were courting - over a 500 mile separation - our phone calls could run an hour or more.
This made me think of a request we (our Bell group) had from the government for something similar. Now the largest disk drive we had at the time was the IBM 2311. I did some calculations and figured that since they wanted this data stored on-line we would have had 2311 drives strung from coast to coast.
They are storing which number gets overseas calls from other numbers, and even that is going to suck up a hell of a lot of space. There simply is not enough space for storing conversations
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Last edited by merrylander; 06-12-2013 at 09:03 AM.
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