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

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From: Patrick Torre
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 18:24

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In <1994Apr8.224856.25548@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

>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.

Sorry, 

When refering to Disk and Network capacity the convention is that 
1MB = One Million Bytes NOT 2^20 Bytes.

What speed is a 10Mbit Ethernet?,  A 16Mbit Token-Ring?
(16 MHz = 16,000,000 Hz ).

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