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  2. From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Disk storage size?
  5. Message-ID: <7249@skye.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 17:04:47 GMT
  7. References: <0001@umd.edu>
  8. Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  9. Lines: 14
  10.  
  11. In article <0001@umd.edu> pc@umd.edu writes:
  12. >When people talk about 200MB disk, do they mean  200x1,000,000 byte, or
  13. >200x1024x1024 ?
  14.  
  15. Depends whether they're buying or selling.
  16.  
  17. [Is that a real article number?  And why was this posted to comp.benchmarks
  18. with a followup-to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware?]
  19.  
  20. -- Richard
  21. -- 
  22. Richard Tobin,
  23. AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
  24. Edinburgh University.
  25.