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Ten Terabytes Transferred
Posted by Michael on 4 December 2004, 04:19 GMT

December 4, 2004 is a date that will be remembered around the world forever. Parades will be held in the streets of New York, Paris, and Pago Pago. Future children will celebrate each year with their parents, holding wild calculator festivals. Why? Because this evening ticalc.org passed further into the realm of undeniable awesomeness with a major bandwidth milestone.

During the period from April 14, 1997 to December 4, 2004, ticalc.org transferred 10 TB of data. That's ten terabytes (equivalent to 10,240 GB). We are currently averaging 6.12 GB of data transferred per day, or 42.82 GB per week. You can find all of these statistics and others on our Web Server Statistics page. A few other interesting pieces of trivia:

  • Hypothetically, it would take a TI-83 Plus approximately 291 years to transfer 10 TB through the link port. If you used TI Connect, it'd probably take a millennium and then crash halfway through.
  • The average video rental store holds about 8 TB worth of video data.
  • It is estimated that the books of the Library of Congress would amount to 20 TB if digitized. Thus, ticalc.org has transferred "half a Library of Congress".
We wish to thank all of the people who have visited ticalc.org and contributed to this milestone.

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Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Benjamin Moody  Account Info

Really, Michael, what kind of a TI-83 Plus can only transfer 1.17 kB/s?

A better question: how are you planning on keeping track of time after your 84+'s clock overflows in about 128 years?

*goes outside to join the parade*

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 05:14 GMT

Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
W Hibdon  Account Info
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speaking of those damned clocks, does anyone know why an operating system made in 2004 allows me to set the date to 1997? (I speak of the 68k AMS) It boggles my mind why they would allow that, but not earlier.

-W-

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 05:28 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Benjamin Moody  Account Info

The answer is that January 1, 1997, midnight Texas time, was the beginning of time, as far as TI is concerned.

It is the origin of TI's date stamp system, which also uses 32 bits, foolishly enough. The first TI date stamps would have been made for the first Flash Apps and OS's (1998) so TI's programmers must have figured they could extend the life of their date stamps.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 05:54 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
anykey  Account Info

Kinda' like those websites with the pulldowns that ask for your birth year that go back to 1900. I love those. :^)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 18:41 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Andy Janata  Account Info
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And also up to the current year. :)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 18:59 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Travis Evans  Account Info

You think there might not be people out there who are 104 years old?

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 23:08 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

None who would be using a computer. :-D

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 01:22 GMT


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Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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What makes you so sure of that :-) I know at least one person 100+ who uses a computer more or less regularly.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 18:49 GMT


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W Hibdon  Account Info
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Lifesupport does nto count.

-W-

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 15:30 GMT

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Morgan Davies  Account Info
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My stepmom's aunt is 101 and counting. She doesn't even appear to be effected by time, its like she is still 70 or so...

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 17:59 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

120d

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Coolv  Account Info

... or 0 years?

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 02:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
CajunLuke  Account Info

I saw one that even went up to 2054! (For birth year!)

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 21:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Travis Evans  Account Info

Well, maybe some people born in the future have time machines and go back in time. ;-)

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 23:57 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Matt Long  Account Info
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The date cannot be set higher than 2132, either.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 22:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
deathcloud333 Account Info

so does that mean all time ends in 128 years? but thats such a short life! noooooooooooooo.....

dangit now my dream to live forever is crushed.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 03:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Benjamin Moody  Account Info

To be precise, the End of Time will occur at 6:28:16 AM on February 7, 2133. Most TI scholars believe that this time, referring as it does to a calculator clock, is local, and that therefore the destruction of the universe will occur over the course of 24 hours, beginning with New Zealand. Some New Zealand residents are planning to prevent this by setting their calculators' clocks to UTC; it is unknown what, if any, effect this will have on the impending doom.

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 01:44 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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probably wont help...hey! i just thought of something!
We're Not Going To Be Alive At The End Of Time, So Don't Worry About It!!!

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 02:18 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Andree Chea  Account Info

But our reincarnated souls will (if you believe in reincarnation)...

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 03:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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unlike me

Reply to this comment    9 December 2004, 03:18 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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on the other hand... after thinking about that for that last year or so... i change my mind

Reply to this comment    26 October 2005, 06:40 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

Sure...just like the answer to the universe, to life, to everything is 42... :-)

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:24 GMT

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Tzazak  Account Info

Hehehe...what a great book! The problem with that is we don't know the question...so what's the question that leads to the answer of February 7, 2133? There's a question for everything...especially if we know the answer...

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 23:45 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Maybe it's something along the lines of the "What do you get when you multiply 6 by 7?"...

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 22:15 GMT


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anykey  Account Info

Really?
...I always thought it was pi.
pi = everything.answer()

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 02:51 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

That just shows that YOU haven't read "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"!!! :-)

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 22:16 GMT


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anykey  Account Info

everything.answer() could be 42.

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 23:17 GMT


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Tzazak  Account Info

Yes, well, this is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...according to it, 6 times 9 is 42...

Reply to this comment    9 December 2004, 04:05 GMT


Base 13
CALCUL8R-FREAK  Account Info

6(base 13) × 9(base 13) = 42(base 13)

But he did end up saying "Nobody writes jokes in base 13."

"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."

Reply to this comment    22 December 2004, 11:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
LonePhoenix  Account Info
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that's why you should believe in jesus :) because if you do, he might actualy bother to save you :p

Reply to this comment    9 December 2004, 02:59 GMT

Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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The kind that also has to pause the transmission periodically while it stores the data on its attached 10 TB disk array :)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 17:59 GMT


Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Travis Evans  Account Info

I don't think I'll be using my calculators after that long (assuming I'm still here). I'm being serious this time. ;-) By then I'd probably be using a different, newer calculator, or palm pilot, or computer of some sort.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 23:11 GMT


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Joe Blow  Account Info

Captain Obvious, I presume?

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 00:19 GMT

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