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Tag Archives: future computers

Bits, Bytes, & Chuncs

22 Saturday Aug 2015

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Fun

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1990, 24th century, chunc, dchunc, Exabyte, future computers, Gigabyte, Megabyte, Petabyte, qchunc, Star Trek, Terabyte, USENET

What follows is the text of a piece I wrote back May of 1990 in a Star Trek USENET group. There is some minor editing for clarity. Given that 64 bits seems common now, the projections may need some adjustment!

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