Sunday, June 23, 2013
How big is a million floppies?
Just had quite a classic incident here. A woman had come in to collect her laptop - she'd managed to drop it down the stairs, so the techies here had just restored all her stuff from backup after repairs.
So she was telling us she'd bought a new 1TB drive for backups. The conversation went like this:
Her: How big is 1 terabyte?
Techie: Umm...
H: You know those old 100MB floppy disks?
T: You mean zip disks?
H: No, not zip disks. Floppies. (A floppy was produced at this point, she handled it and confirmed that was the right one).
H: How many floppies would fit in a terabyte?
T: oh... umm... getting on for a million?!
H: A million? How big is a million floppies?
T: what?!
H: How big would it be? Would a million floppies fit in this room?
T: wtf? why?
H: I need to know how big it is for my backups.
T: i've no idea if a million floppies would fit in the room! Work it out yourself
H: I need to imagine how big it is. Have you got any in stock?
T: No, nobody uses them any more!
H: I'm going to collect a million floppies. I'm going to make a teragigadactyl. (She's flapping her arms at this point - i think she was referring to a pterodactyl dinosaur)
She was totally serious through all of this, the rest of us were in stitches :D
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