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br> -- Mike Horn br> Tracy, CA /p> p> DISK COVER br> Re: The Prowler's The DNC's Dirty Disk : /p>

Howard Kurtz of Washington Post in his column "Media Notes" quotes from The American Prowler:

"The presentation was made using a White House laptop and the Hay-Adams projection system. There was no disk, because you can't easily store a full PowerPoint presentation on a disk like that. It's easier just to store it on a hard drive and use the computer," says a White House source. "We know the computer wasn't stolen, so it had to come from somewhere else."

I don't know how sophisticated the Hay-Adams hotel projection system is. But, from all I know about Laptops, Notebooks and projection systems, in such a scenario, the projection system is fairly a "dumb one," merely displaying the received video signal onto the screen. No memory or storage is inherent in these systems.

As to "a full PowerPoint presentation" not being easily stored on a disk, that is both true and false.

p>True, you cannot store any half decent PowerPoint presentation on a "Floppy Disk," its size being limited to a mere 1.44 Megabytes. However, when it comes to such presentations, the medium of choice is a Zip disk, which is available in 100 or 250 Megabyte capacity. That should be enough to contain most fairly complicated presentations. In addition to that, one can store such a caned presentation on a CD-Rom, which can accommodate a whopping 650 megabytes. Most notebook computers nowadays easily accommodate either a Zip disk or a CD-Rom.

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