Gregory's Server@cjrando And then, the volume of data must be fairly small: a 5 1/4'' diskette used to hold just 360 KB. For comparison, a *single* photo taken by a current mobile phone uses 4-10 MB.
"Sure, here's my supposedly pirated book." (Gives out a large box of 50 diskettes, holding a multipart .zip file of a single PDF file)
Can I use your idea for a short story (once I get around to develop it)? I'm at mastodon.art too, same username as this one.
@jcastroarnaud You absolutely can, and that's very polite of you to ask.
Oooh, wouldn't ever suggest PDF, though. Ain't no Zilog Z80 out there fit to decompress a zip and render Postscript. I'll recommend ASCII and 1.2mb floppies. ;)