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Article #3483Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Nick Sayer
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 00:08
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 00:08
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Note the followup-to. I agree with your sentiments, but you left out one of the most agredious example: hard disks. A 1.7 'gigabyte' drive holds about 2,800,000 512 byte sectors. Oh, that was 1.7G _unformatted_. How much good does the unformatted capacity of a drive do ANYONE?! In order to USE the bloody thing don't you have to FORMAT it?! Hello! I have also caught a vendor once using 1,000,000 as a "megabyte". If you do that, the 1.4G drive I mentioned above really looks like a 1.5G drive. Such a deal! It's as bad as an airline selling the same seat twice - any other business that did the same thing would get sued out of existence. -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | If you've seen one honest +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | lawyer, you've seen 'em both. PGP 2.2 key and geek code via finger |
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