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Re:A web server on a single floppy disk by wumms on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:23AM (#46846788)
Sorry, nitpick: 720kB DD 1.44MB HD
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Re:A web server on a single floppy disk by KellyCriterion on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:12PM (#46847596)
++1

:))

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Re:A web server on a single floppy disk by LeoPanthera on Sunday February 01, 2026 @01:39PM (#46848247)
It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.

"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.

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Re:A web server on a single floppy disk by chungy on Sunday February 01, 2026 @02:26PM (#46848605)
With the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB"

Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.

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Re:A web server on a single floppy disk by fuzzfactor on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:53AM (#46853192)
Probably because they have 2880 sectors.
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