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According to this article on c|net:
Two … users have now revealed functioning hard drives built inside Minecraft that can read and write data. The first, created by Reddit and Imgur user smellystring can store 1KB [sic] of data, while a second, larger unit created by The0JJ can store 4KB [sic] of data.
"One day we will build a full computer in Minecraft, then play Minecraft on it. then the universe will crash," writes Imgur user mkat10z. Turns out, someone has already done that, creating a 2D platformer version of Minecraft that you play within Minecraft on a redstone computer.
UPDATE: It appears the referenced article was in error; the actual capacities should be in kilobits.
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The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
(Score: 2) by nukkel on Friday August 22 2014, @05:35AM
The second one is 4kb (actually 4kib if you insist), not 4kB.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday August 22 2014, @05:41AM
In other words, just enough space for the boot sector.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday August 22 2014, @09:17AM
Bah in my day we had the entire OS [oldcomputers.net] running in 1.5Kb ROM! You kids with your reading AND writing data...spoiled is what you are!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by stderr on Friday August 22 2014, @07:36AM
The error is also in the original article, which is a bit odd cause the imgur page [imgur.com] clearly says 256 positions with 16 bits at each position.
I wonder if cnet got the size of the other "hard drive" wrong too or if the "small" one is actually larger than the "large" one.
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday August 22 2014, @07:59AM
If I understand the structure correctly, and didn't miscount, the small one has 120 bytes (there's always a full 8-bit byte in a line), which makes 960 bits; however, it seems odd that he'd have the main structure would be repeated 15 instead of 16 times (that main structure contains 8 bytes, from my understanding), so I guess I've made a mistake somewhere in my counting/interpretation and there's indeed 128 bytes, or 1024 bits.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.