[PLUG] Columbus and paper tape

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:42:28 -0700
Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> dijo:

>On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:08:14AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes,
>> and take 530 years to read.
>
>530 years ... if Columbus hadn't destroyed the paper tape
>reader he discovered when he landed on Cuba in 1492, and
>turned it on instead, it might still be reading its
>terabyte hoard of paper tape, punched with 200 centuries
>of pre-Columbian history, and finishing in 2022.  :-)

Setting down the issue of Analog that I was reading ...

A great premise for an alternate realty sci-fi story. :)