They probably stored it on tape which was slow but could hold an impressive amount of data.
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ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 1 year agoHonestly the 1.2 TB I’m the early 90s is an insanely impressive figure to me. I mean in that era a gigabyte seemed like an obscene amount of data, the interat ran at less than 56 kbps, and I don’t think I had a 1GB drive in my hime PC until almost the turn of the millennium. Sending and storing that much from venus is a huge accomplishment.
kittyjynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1.2 Tb* ~ 162GB
Still impressive though