[geeks] How big is a pile of 40,000 PCs?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "R. Lonstein" <rlonstein at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:13:14AM -0400, David L Kindred (Dave)
> wrote:
> 	[snip]
> > trying to imagine just how large a pile of 40,000 PCs would be if
> > they were ever in the same place at once?
> 	[snip]
> 
> According to Enlight, they can ship 800 cases (each approx. 17"w X
> 7"h
> X 19"d) in a 40 foot container. I'm guessing that is one of those big
> steel shipping containers like you see at the port being unloaded by
> crane. That works out, conveniently, to 50 of these. Imagine 50
> tractor trailers (not including the cab) and you have an idea of the
> size.

As a point of reference, the rolling stones are using 53 tractor
trailers for their tour. ;^)

Lionel

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Lionel

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