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

R. Lonstein rlonstein at pobox.com
Wed Oct 9 13:10:02 CDT 2002


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.

- Ross



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