Trivia for the techie in all of us.

[mekennedy55]

Hello to all
I've deleted this thread info. Time to let this one die a peaceful death.

[tommyboy]

Use CDs, not floppys, or better yet, use flash drives.

[Scooterb]

So, some rough calculations:
. using rough dimensions (couldn't find actual thickness of floppy) 8.3 x 9.3 x 0.2[the guess] cm for volume of floppy
which = .154 cubic meters


His conversion of cubic centimeters into cubic meters is off by a factor of 10,000 (1 cubic meter = 1,000,000 cubic centimeters)

I measured a floppy disk using a caliper getting the following... 9.0 x 9.3 x .34 = 27.6 cm^3 which is equal to 2.76E-5 m^3.

If you define one Petabyte as 10E15 bytes, multiplied by 14 and divide the formatted size of a floppy (1.47Mbytes) you get about 9.524 billion floppies. Multiply that by 2.76E-5 and that equals 262,857 cubic meters or 9.2 million cubic feet.

[Computer Nerd]

Arrr! Hijack!

Speaking of computer related things, can you imagine what a bummer it would be if this was your internet options?

In case you can't read the fine print, it says "Excludes illegal material."

[Lou65]

That is really funny and interesting......

Bill Gates said in a speech a few years back;

"be kind to nerds, someday one may be your boss"

[Blue STreak]

So what ISP is that ad from?