On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
> I bought an IBM Deskstar hard disk that was rated at 810 Megabytes and it
> had a note inserted into the packaging that had, IIRC, this to say about it:
>
> Dear Customer,
> The disk you have purchased holds 810,549,248 bytes when it
> is formatted. Some programs will use the value of 1,048,576 bytes
> as the size of a megabyte and will show this disk as having only
> 773 "megabytes" of storage, other programs will use 1,024,000 bytes
> as the size of a megabyte and show the disk as having 791 or 792
> megabytes. We don't understand it either, sorry for the confusion.
> IBM Support
I can hardly believe IBM would put that last sentence in any of their
literature. Some jocular IBMers must've slipped that thru when the
corporate exec wasn't looking.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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