[Hidden-tech] More packrat stuff... files off an ms-dos system?

[Matt Lampiasi]

And one high quality mp3 file could be spanned across only 5 or 6 
floppy's with windows 3.0 backup utility if i recall. definitely a space 
and time saver. Seriously (as that was sarcasm),  I'm a fan of plain 
ascii as well, if you're storing plain txt its the way to go if you have 
an eye on data sizes, as clearly 720k floppy users might :) , but then, 
720k floppy users know these things. pls don't take offense im just 
poking a little fun. at least theyre slowly not decomposing in a landfill.

I have a box of about 100 (1.44mb and maybe a few 720k's) various old 
apps (deskview, ca realizer, dos, OS2) if anyone wants them, i didnt 
consider them worth the cost of shipping but maybe they are to the 
person. let me know if you want them, because if you don't take them 
maybe i'll use them to send resumes on... ok i'll stop. :)

Robert Heller wrote:
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>>
>> This discussion is fascinating. Considering we are in the age of Blu-Ray,
>> Solid State Media and 1 TB hard drives. I'd be hard pressed to find anything
>> on my computer that would actually FIT on a 720K floppy these days.
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>
> I have lots of files, including whole programs that would fit on a 720k
> floppy (MicroEmacs 3.10 does, except for the libncurses.so.4 library). 
> Oh, the power of plain ASCII text files -- lots of info, small disk
> usage.  Actually, all of my resumes would fit:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 heller users 103K Jan 10 11:32 Deepwoods/MonsterCom/RobertHeller/RobertHeller-0.13_PDF.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 heller users 127K Jan 10 11:32 Deepwoods/MonsterCom/RobertHeller/RobertHeller-0.13_PDF.zip
>
> (Not that I would bother putting them on any sort of floppy.)
>
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>> Rikk
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Florence I.T. - A Community IT shop.
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