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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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(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.