On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:08:13PM -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> o     perform the miraculous transfer a 1.3 gigbyte video file to a 1.4
>       megabyte floppy disk

*I* can demonstrate the transfer of a 1.3 Gbyte video file
to a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk, provided that it was rendered as some
expensive format (say BMP) to begin with and has sufficient visual
redundancy to compress down to just about a single MPEG frame. ;-)

>       But he declined repeated offers to replicate the results on
>       quarantined equipment at The Age offices, citing "security concerns''.

Ding ding ding ding.  Hoax.

---Rsk
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