New Imperial Units Dropped
wake up babe, new imperial units just dropped Table of data size equivalent units Unit | Abbr. or symbols | Relative to previous | Disks | Bytes | Notes bit | | | 1/30 000 000 | 0.125 | card | cd | 960 bit | 1/31 250 | 120 | Data capacity of the IBM 12-row/80-column punched card. tape | tp | 1920 cd | 192/3 125 | 230 400 | Data capacity of the UNISERVO magnetic tape drive. disk | dk | 16 53/192 tp | 1 | 3 750 000 | Data capacity of the IBM 350 disk storage unit.
A deliberately serious-looking table introduces absurd “imperial units” for measuring data, including cards, tapes, and disks. The joke is the mock announcement that a bizarre obsolete measurement system has just been released, parodying tech announcements like “new units dropped.” It is used as a reaction to overly complicated, archaic, or needlessly specific systems of measurement.
- @profunctor_io / 9134 2023-08-07
- Type
- image
- Size
- 800×375 · 49.4 KiB
- Mood
- absurd, sarcastic
- Language
- en
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