>>> BTW, would you say 'kilobyte' is a misnomer? THe number it
>>>signifies isn't 10^3, it's 2^10. For a feeble attempt to get back on
>>>topic: was kilobyte always accepted as 1024 bytes?
>> What drives me crazy are the marketroids who round-up twice
>> in order to inflate the capacity of hard drives.
> What annoys me is the 1.44Mbyte floppy disk. The only way to get that
> capacitiy is to define 1Mbyte = 1000*1024 Bytes. Ugh!
> The famous 65K memory chips/boards of years gone by grated on me as well
> (they were, of course 64K boards with 65536 locations).
Just remember the Ataris: 64XL, 130XL, ST260, ST520, ST1040 :))
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 07:22:55 BST