Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!

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From: Szymon Sokol
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:28

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Tom Sorensen (gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:

: The first major case of this occuring, AFAIK, is with "360K" disks. Although
: *EVERYONE* called them 360K they were really only 320*1024 bytes... (ie- 320K)

Sorry, this is BS - a 360k floppy is 2 sides * 40 tracks * 9 sectors * 512 
bytes/sector = 360*1024 bytes = 360KB, exactly. Maybe you thhink about real
320k floppies, those had 8 sectors per track and are no longer in use 
(AFAIK)...
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