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Article #3488Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 21:09
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 21:09
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In article <2o16dr$6m7@acme.gatech.edu> gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu (Tom Sorensen) writes: >nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: > >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) > You probably got off of DOS real early....because a 360K floppy really does have 360*1024 bytes. 320*1024 => 327,680 bytes.....I don't think anybody would be convince that that is 360K. Real early DOS (1.0), used 320K floppies.... they used an 8 sectors per track format (8*40*2*512 = 320K), later then went to 9 sectors per track (9*40*2*512 = 360K). -- WORK: lawrence@combdyn.com | PHONE 403 529 2162 | FAX 529 2516 | VE6LKC HOME: dreamer@lhaven.uumh.ab.ca | 403 526 6019 | 529 5102 | VE6PAQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praxis BBS - 529 1610 | CYSNET BBS - 526 4304 | Lunatic Haven BBS - 526 6957 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- disclamer = (working_for && !representing) + (Combustion Dynamics Ltd.);
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