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Subject: How Big is the Mac Archive
As students and collectors of the Mac Community File Archive we became
interested in determining the size and compostion of the Mac Archive.
We analysed all the major online archives and most of the CD collections
that have been released during 1996. Our analysis with graphs of the age
size and composition of most of the archive is available at
http://ianandstuart.simplenet.com.
We estimate the public online Mac Community Archive is 30,000 compressed
files for 10GBytes expanding to 150,000 files. The complete online
Archive is 45,000 compressed files for 15GBytes expanding to 250,000
files. The complete Mac Archive is 150,000 files for 30GBytes that should
expand to 650,000 files. We estimate that total online Mac file space is
less than 500GBytes with the complete computing Archive less than 10
Terabytes.
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