Re: 3.5" 128Mb M/O Drives?

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From: Bill Williams
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:12

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It is *NOT* a 128 Megabyte device it can only hold 121 Megabytes MAXIMUM!

Do not spread misinformation. Certainly you aren;t measuring the capacity
as "millions of bytes" instead of Megabytes. A Megabyte is based on posers
of 2 (2^10 = 1048576 bytes) not 10^6 (1000000 bytes).

A Kilobyte and a Megabyte are units of measure related to COMPUTER STORAGE
and are not supposed to be subject to redefinition by slick talking
marketing people and salesmen not versed in computer programming technologies.

As a side note... the original Mac 128 user manual defined "Kilobyte" in
the manual as "1000 bytes" I Blame Apple wholly and exculsively for this
caniving and insidious mistake that now has snoballed 9 years later into
PLI customers deluding themselves into thinking they can store more than
121 Megabytes on their 3.5 inch MO devices.


Bill Williams

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