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- From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
- Subject: Re: 3.5" 128Mb M/O Drives?
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:12:33 GMT
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- It is *NOT* a 128 Megabyte device it can only hold 121 Megabytes MAXIMUM!
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- Do not spread misinformation. Certainly you aren;t measuring the capacity
- as "millions of bytes" instead of Megabytes. A Megabyte is based on posers
- of 2 (2^10 = 1048576 bytes) not 10^6 (1000000 bytes).
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- A Kilobyte and a Megabyte are units of measure related to COMPUTER STORAGE
- and are not supposed to be subject to redefinition by slick talking
- marketing people and salesmen not versed in computer programming technologies.
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- As a side note... the original Mac 128 user manual defined "Kilobyte" in
- the manual as "1000 bytes" I Blame Apple wholly and exculsively for this
- caniving and insidious mistake that now has snoballed 9 years later into
- PLI customers deluding themselves into thinking they can store more than
- 121 Megabytes on their 3.5 inch MO devices.
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- Bill Williams
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