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Thread #66064 Message #1093067
Posted By: Amos
15-Jan-04 - 12:06 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Download a file to Floppy (3 1/2)
Subject: RE: Tech: Download a file to Floppy (3 1/2)
Jeep:
A modern floppy disk holds-- at most-- 1.4 Megabytes of data.
IF I understand you, you are referring to a folder (a directory) of files, which in turn contains many files of various sorts. Yes?
The only question is how much information the folder has in it. You would have to look at the "Properties" listing of the folder to find out; or, if it is a Mac, "Get Info" on the folder. If it has less than 1.4 Megabytes of data in it, you could download it to a floppy disk if you wanted to.
However, if your computer has a USB port in it (depends on age) you would be better off transferring it to a CD or a Zip Disk, again depending on the size. If your computer has a SCSI port, you could still find a Zip Drive or a CD burner that hooked up to a SCSI port to use.
The reason is that they hold more and (CDs especially) are more reliable.
You might do better to sort the folder into several folders by type (music, text, etc) and downlaod those subfolders to floppies or zip-disks or CDs or whatever.