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Article #3475Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Chuck Campbell
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 19:45
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 19:45
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Everyone seems to have missed the fact that nearly ALL disk manufacturers are using 1Mb to mean 1,000,000 bytes. In fact, I've seen articles about DMb's for Disk Mega bytes. This clears the confusion wouldn't you say? I realise that it was indeed (as someone earlier said in this thread) a "sleazy marketing ploy" by the disk manufacturers, but it is now the defacto standard for quoting disk sizes. We can just remember it from now on :-( -chuck
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