From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 06:00:05 PST
To: Alexander Chislenko <sasha@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: USENET on a tape
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Alexander Chislenko says:
>    Jeremy Porter writes:
>  
> > ... Usenet traffic being rated at some 21gigabytes a year
> > (traffic through UUnet) considering the low information value
> > of the vast majority of it, no one will be interested in storing it.
>  
>    Wait a minute...
>    How much would it cost to store all this info?
> a few hundred thousand dollars a year?

21GB = 5 Exabyte tapes == no more than $50.

Even if you keep it on line, the cost in question is only $15000 or so
with modern disk (at ripoff prices!).

Perry