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720K

May refer to the 720K microfloppy disk used in earlier PCs.
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Nearly 720K puts traded in General Electric last week, vs 343K calls, with several massive spreads opening bearish vertical spreads in April and May just ahead of today's downgrade by JP Morgan that has shares expected to open down 50c, or 5% to $9.50 this morning.
The company said that its management's ecision to begin providing freight forwarding services to Brazil and Argentina out of Shanghai in 2012 led to the company achieving freight volume of 3,000 TEU generating revenue for the year from the South American route of approximately USD 720k with USD 139k in gross profit.
Bulls in short supply ( with strong demand - Lim 110.5p (720k from Hill Head), 107.5p (750k Hill Head).
This was a fine metaphor, back in the days of Xerox Parc and the original Mac, which had no hard disk and a single 720k floppy.
For example, one of the several micros that I have used over the years was a Toshiba 1100+ laptop computer, an 8086 processor based micro (an 8-bit chip, compared with today's 32 and 64-bit chips) with 640K of memory and dual 3 1/2-in., 720K floppy disk drives.
The 7-pound laptop comes with DOS file format compatibility, WordPerfect and Lotus Converters, features a 16-line by 80-character backlit LCD with built-in 3.5-inch disk drive and 720K memory disks.
Upon examination, they have formated a 360K to 1.2M or a 720K to a 1.44M.
For those without a hard drive, it can run directly off a single floppy (720k minimum) or dual floppy disc.
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