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Submission + - Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83 (forbes.com)

Rhinobird writes: "Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and crucial figure in the early history of the personal computer industry, passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, his family confirms. He was 83 years old."

Comment I did the math. (Score 1) 159

"Stuck also pointed out that InPhase's technology writes data at 20MB/sec compared with Blu-rays data transfer speed of 4.8MB/sec.

"If they [GE] really do have a 500GB disk, I come up with 100,000 seconds to fill a disc. There's 86,400 seconds in a day. You do the math,"

Hmm... 500,000MB / 20MB/sec = 25,000 sec. =~7 hours

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