[wellylug] Re. Scanning, storing, & publishing a 320 page document ..

[Bruce Hoult]

On 6/25/07, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> How many Mb would ~320 pages be ?

Plain text on CP/M?  In those days daisy wheel printers tended to do
66 lines of 60 characters, so fully-justified text will be 3960 bytes
per page, or 4092 including hard CR and LF line endings.  Call it 4 KB
:-)   So 320 pages is 1.25 MB.  It'll probably fit on one high density
floppy.