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To: Dan(9698)

“Floppies never were 10 megabytes.
They were 1.44 meg.”

Excuse me, but I happen to recall asking, “What would I ever write that could possibly fill a 256K disc?”


24 posted on 01/14/2013 7:46:21 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: G Larry

But you could buy a hole puncher you could make it a 2.88 meg disk. So if you punch a 2nd hole you would get a 5.76 meg and the last hole would give you a 11.53 meg. But like 64k is really 65536 it was rounded down to 10 meg.


26 posted on 01/14/2013 8:04:18 PM PST by ThomasThomas
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To: G Larry

That was Bill Gates and the quote was something like, “640k is enough memory for everyone.”


27 posted on 01/14/2013 8:06:15 PM PST by Blue Highway
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