I was talking to Jim(2) and JCH just now and, inspired by my most recent blog post, asked the question "How many Commodore 64 cassettes would it take to store a copy of windows XP". The question on its own is poorly defined so I'll add a few details:
I'm going to calculate the actual answer tonight and will post the answer soon.
Feel free to take a guess at the actual number in the comments of this post and whoever is closest, without going over, wins a pint of fine ale (or if I don't know you in real life you just get a hearty huzzah! and the joy of knowing that your wild guess was better than everybody else's)
- These are standard C90 audio cassettes (90 minutes long in total)
- We are going to read the data in using only technology from the 1980's
I'm going to calculate the actual answer tonight and will post the answer soon.
Feel free to take a guess at the actual number in the comments of this post and whoever is closest, without going over, wins a pint of fine ale (or if I don't know you in real life you just get a hearty huzzah! and the joy of knowing that your wild guess was better than everybody else's)
