Justin Richards wrote:

> I am often bewildered by the contractions, abbreviations etc used to save
> space where the appears to be no shortage of space.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It really doesn't take much to write 9.1 Gbyte SCSI HardDrive

Nope, but the below seems to be an attempt to coerce the information
into a single line of some 70 characters or so. Could be the desire to
accommodate the few that still hang on to mail readers that can't handle
anything more complex than ASCII and hard line breaks every 80
characters... :)

Gerhard


>>  From my invoice for a recent Pic book purchase.
>>
>> Could they try any harder?
>>
>> The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Qty                           Item    Price         Shipped Subtotal
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC):
>>
>>   1  Microcontrollers: From Ass...   $47.24               1   $47.24
>>
>> Shipped via Standard Int'l  Shipping
>>
>> Colin
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