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

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From: Grant Edwards
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 22:48

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Richard Seymour (seymour@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
: >
: >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?! 

What I find amazingly dumb is when they specify a drive size in MB where
1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes rather than 2^20.  Don't tell me they're quoting
unformatted size either, Seagate documentation shows the following for
a pre-formatted ST4096:

Cyls  Heads  Sectors  Capacity
1024  9      17       80MB    

Well, 1024 * 9 * 17 * 512 = 80,216,064 bytes, which they call 80MB.

I call it 76 MB.

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Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  Loni Anderson's hair
Rosemount Inc.                                |should be LEGALIZED!!
                                              |
grante@aquarius.rosemount.com                 |

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From: grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
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