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Is 1,500 kilobytes as much as a Compact Disc?

It's about one-five-hundredth as much as a Compact Disc
The amount of a Compact Disc is about 755,000 kilobytes.
(80-minute, 360,000 sector disc; "Red Book" specifications)
A typical, 80-minute capacity compact disc, commonly known as a 716,800 kilobytes disc will actually hold 755,000 kilobytes of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
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