"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
>
> Welcome to the list, joee.
>
> As you may have noticed, we are strongly opinionated, sometimes
> judgemental, and never subtle about expressing annoyances.
>
> My personal beef is with the use of 1024000 for a Megabyte. I prefer
> 1048576, will accept 1000000, but can't stand the use of 1024000.
> (A PC HD floppy is 80 tracks * 2 sides * 18 sectors per track * 512 bytes
> per sector -- how can you get "1.44 M" from THAT?)
Unformated data bits.
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Received on Thu Jan 03 2002 - 17:46:13 GMT