Reiability of wrong media (was: is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Fri Jan 22 22:43:23 1999

Well, every computer I have that has 1 MB or more or RAM. Which is a total
of Hmm.. 4. All my others only have 640k. two are IBM's, one's a toshiba,
and the other's my P200.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Reiability of wrong media (was: is out of 5-1/4" diskettes
>>
>> Every computer that I've ever owned, When it does a memory test of "1
>> megabyte", the listing is always
>>
>> 1024KB......OK.
>
>I can't work out if you're agreeing with me or not.
>
>However, 1024KB _is_ 1 Megabyte. It's 1024 * 1024 (=1048576) bytes.
>Unless 'every computer that you've ever owned' defines 1KB as 1000 bytes
>(hint : none of mine do that).
>
>-tony
>
>

Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 22:43:23 GMT