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Originally Posted by dwig
Back then, ebooks were simple ASCII text files and vastly smaller than today's bulky formats with their relatively huge cover art. The floppies on the Tandy 1000 would hold 10, or so, of the ebook files of the day.
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1K of 8bit ASCII is about one page of neatly typewritten text.
Those 360K floppy disks would have held one good size novel, unless it was compressed. (PKZIP, anyone!)
They would, however, hold dozens of these:
http://www.asciiworld.com/-Womens-.html