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

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From: Richard Seymour
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 19:52

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In article <gfzLe#b@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
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>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?! 

There actually are some applications which use the full unformatted capacity.
Video-streaming (often with parallel-heads turned on) is one which comes 
  to mind.
That crowd also makes use of the drives' ability to synchronize their motors
 so that "bit zero" of all spindles passes under the heads at the same time.

i use 512-byte blocks. Some other systems use 1024-bytes... they get
 more on their disk than i do... who do i sue?
 (Macintoshes can write enough data on a PC-formatted floppy disk such 
    that a PC can't read it... who's wrong?)
--dick

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