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From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 13:21:40 2002

> > (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?)
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> Unformated data bits.

Nope. IT IS NOT in any way an issue of unformatted capacity.
The unformatted capacity of such disks is almost 2M.

They get it by using the most ridiculous, cockamamy, idiotic possible
value for what a megabyte should represent.
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 13:21:40 GMT