Lippard.Multics 1985-07-20 01:56:49 mst Sat Subject: A Truly Herculean Task Date: Friday, 19 July 1985 15:51 mst From: Jerry Crow To: {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc} From the Phoenix Gazette, 07/18/85: More computer theft arrests likely New Brunswick, NJ (UPI) -- Authorities investigating the alleged illegal use by youths of home computers for free telephone and informational services will examine 9 million computer discs in their search for more suspects. ...... [The] Assistant County Prosecutor ... said investigators still had "six more computers and 9 million floppy discs" to look through. ------------------------------ That job is going to take some resources and time. Then there's the question of storage: a member of my staff calculated that 9.0E06 floppies occupy about 38,000 cubic feet of storage space. Guess the "youths" rented a warehouse to store their allegedly illegally obtained data. Let's see, at two diskettes per hour, 40 hours a week that's .... One surmises that the able prosecutor and his investigators will look at 9 megabytes of data. Then, again, maybe the "youths" had systems with one byte drives ....