From:	Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject:	Mp & CD
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 1994 10:24:38 +0200

>Well, it seems people are forgetting one minor thing. Where the SRII
>books is talking about hermetic libraries, it says how many optical
>chips or compact disks they would take. It says that a CD holds 100Mp.
>Now, the most I've ever seen a CD hold was about 600 megs. This would
>lead me to believe that a megapulse is about 6-7 megs. How does this
>sound?

Somewhere (Shadowbeat, I believe) it says that the current (i.e.
2051/2/3/4/5) CDs are smaller in size than those of the 1990s. I think
I've read in an SR book somewhere that the information density on a
Shadowrun CD is greater than on 1990s' CDs as well, so probably a lot
more megs per Mp.

But somehow I don't think that the Mp has a constant conversion factor to
the meg. I mean, .5 megs of text, that's a pretty large file (something
like a hundred pages or more, maybe. So if a sourcebook indicates that
there was <<.5 Mp deleted by Sysop>>, that would be half the fragging
book...


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