This unit equals about 1,000 megabytes, or about half a million pages of text
[DOC] [TLE] The Amazing History of Information Storage: How Small Has ... [PAR] Aug 30, 2012 ... (Source) At 50 million words or about 300 million characters, it requires ... That 
hard drive, weighing over 2,000 pounds, stored a whopping 5 megabytes (not 
gigabytes!)