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Article #860Re: What happens when you didn't get enough sleep...
From: Michael Black
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 23:16
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 23:16
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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jules wrote: > On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:21:03 -0700, UncleEnglish wrote: >> Funny! Yet, 5 or 6 years ago, one of my students left her disssertaion >> on a train, 70k words, 6 floppies on a train > > 70 thousand words and it needed 6 floppies? That's gotta be an MS format > ;-) > "Words" is the key thing, he's surely not talking about the size of storage. When counting Morse Code, one treated every five characters as a word, but in real life, likely the words vary in size, and likely for the worst. 70K * 5 is 350K, just under the size of a 5.25" single sided double density floppy. The Apple II would store something like 170K on a floppy. There was a period when there was no double density, so it could be less. The battery operated floppy drive for the old Radio Shack Model 100 used single sided disks, and would take only 100K. Maybe some of the disks were duplicate backups, but I can imagine if this was early enough, 70K words straddling more than one floppy even without the help of Microsoft. Michael
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