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Is 2.50 petabytes as much as a Magnetic Stripe Card?

It's about 30,000,000,000,000 times as much as a Magnetic Stripe Card
The amount of a Magnetic Stripe Card is about 0.0000000000000900 petabytes.
(maximum capacity; per ISO 7811 specification)
The storage capacity of a magnetic stripe on a credit or identification card is about 0.0000000000001000 petabytes. According to legend, Forrest Parry, the IBM engineer who developed the first magnetic stripe card in 1960, was able to solve the problem of adhering the strip to the card after his wife suggested using an iron.
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