Floppy Discs

pappa_golf

Deleted_User wrote: »

What you mean is your Word document file was too large for the 1.44MB capacity of the floppy disk.

I was saving Word 2003 docs to floppies in 2004 on a daily basis while doing a college course.

1.44mb , posh !!!!!!s we had 360mb on the amstrads , , very floppy 5.75in as well

no1catman

Deleted_User wrote: »

What you mean is your Word document file was too large for the 1.44MB capacity of the floppy disk.

I was saving Word 2003 docs to floppies in 2004 on a daily basis while doing a college course.

Again No, puzzled from what I wrote - why would you think that? Thought I've already established that while I have old floppy discs, I don't currently have a Floppy disc ready!!

Neil_Jones

Typically the number of words in a Word document is irrelevant to a point as to how much space it takes up because Word can and will compress the data. Pictures and anything complicated takes up far more space than a few thousand words in a Word Document ever will.

Using anything other than default formatting is what pushes the file sizes up - custom fonts, styles, effects, lots of paragraphs, even whether something is bold or italic. There is no limit on the number of words a Word file can hold however invariably inserting images directly as opposed to linking to them will push Word files upwards in terms of file size.

As to 5.75in, can't find any mention of this, sure you don't mean 5 and a quarter inch floppies? Some of the Amstrads used 3" disks but these wouldn't have held anywhere near 360Mb. 360Kb is closer but in theory with the right hardware it could have held a whopping 720Kb. The 5 and a quarter disks actually held less data than the 3.5" drives.

The sort of capacity of around 300Mb only came with the LS120 which was effectively a hybrid floppy/CD unit which required a second mortgage to buy never mind run.