On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:22, Carsten Koch wrote: > Guido Fiala wrote: > ... > > > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - > > How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) > > Actually, according to > http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm > the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. <OT> In the book "The computers of Star Trek" one quad is assumed to relate to "one quadrillion bytes" - that is 1e18 bytes or 1 Million Terrabytes... I wonder why their PADDS (used for nothing more than a sophisticated ebook-reader) will need 4 Million Terrabytes of Storage when they can access the core anyway at any time...not even Data can read data that fast ;-) </OT>
