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If you resize it to fit a 640 x 480 screen it shrinks that file down to only a tiny 71 Kilobytes.
Question: How do I resize photos before I email them? | Sync Blog 2007
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Shugart Associates initially took up the torch through a request from Wang Laboratories and the 5 ¼ quickly jumped from 80 Kilobytes to 360 Kilobytes by 1978.
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The Seagate ST-506 hard drive could, for its comparatively minuscule size, hold a staggering 5 Megabytes of data when formatted, and over five times the 1980 standard 720 Kilobytes of the 5 ¼ floppy.
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That same year IBM invented an 8-inch removable floppy diskette that held 80 Kilobytes.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Shugart Associates initially took up the torch through a request from Wang Laboratories and the 5 ¼ quickly jumped from 80 Kilobytes to 360 Kilobytes by 1978.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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That same year IBM invented an 8-inch removable floppy diskette that held 80 Kilobytes.
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The Seagate ST-506 hard drive could, for its comparatively minuscule size, hold a staggering 5 Megabytes of data when formatted, and over five times the 1980 standard 720 Kilobytes of the 5 ¼ floppy.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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You can download a book that someone scanned and ocred and it will be anywhere from 50-100 Kilobytes.
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Considerations for the "autogrow" and "autoshrink" settings in SQL Server bug in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 (already fixed in the next SQL Server release) that when you grow a TLog in 4GB increments, the first growth is only of a fraction of the issued size (a few Kilobytes), and reissuing the growth command will then work as intended. workaround is to use a 3GB or a 5GB growth increment.
MSDN Blogs pmasl 2010
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Only a few years ago, when Internet-video images were transmitted at less than 300 Kilobytes per second, it was virtually impossible to enjoy a live, pixelated image of Barry Bonds swinging at a white blur coming from the pitcher's hand.
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