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From: tjlee@iastate.edu (Tom Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Diskette humor
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Date: 30 Mar 91 06:15:31 GMT
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	I just bought a box of 5 1/4" disks.  On the side of the box, the
following easily-twisted statistic appears:

CAPACITY:
Unformatted			500 KB
IBM PC, PC XT Formatted		360 KB

	So there you have it, folks -- don't format your disks, and get 140 KB
more space!  I _knew_ the slow 1541 formatting process was a waste of time.

        Tom Lee, "The Lamplighter"        | BITNET:  TAB47@ISUVAX        |  /
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