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On 2018-04-05, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-04-05, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/5/2018 10:53 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 4:16:12 PM UTC-6, Al Kossow wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/4/18 3:02 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> article in LIFE magazine about putting the bible on a computer.
>>>>   
>>>> It's actually about using a Univac computer to to produce a Concordance
>>>> for the Bible.
>>> 
>>> Of course, putting the Bible on a computer in the plainer sense also
>>> happened.  Thus, a Bible with the RSV text was typeset using an ICT 1500
>>> computer that I mentioned in this newsgroup once.
>>
>> ISTM the Holy Bible (Old and New testaments) in ASCII requires less than 
>> five megabytes of storage spce.
>
> [huge@amun ~/Desktop]: ls -l /data/Media/Books/Fiction/KingJamesBible.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 huge huge 4451502 Nov 27  2016 /data/Media/Books/Fiction/KingJamesBible.txt
>
> There you go. 4.45Mb.

Yup.  The version I got my hands on came on three 5 1/4-inch floppies.
(It must have been compressed - probably ARC, since it predated zip.)

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