Re: IBM Disk Space Report -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: IBM Disk Space Report
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:51:20 -0400
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

That would be 55,834 diskettes. That is, if memory serves me correctly that the diskette capacity is 1.44mb.

8-inch floppies? The highest density of those was more like 1.2 MB, I
think. And it was common to see around 300 KB. (1.44 MB was typical
for 3.5".)

John

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