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

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 07:47

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In <Co2v1E.B6I@acsu.buffalo.edu> kalisiak@cs.buffalo.edu (Chris Kalisiak) writes:
| >No, he is right, for some mfgr's and some disks.  
| 
| Only those unscrupulous vendors whom try to make their products sound
| larger than they actually are. Kinda like tweaking SPECmarks, I suppose.

You can look at that way if you want, but all of the are quite honest
and clear about it.  At *least* the following vendors do this on their
3.5" drives (some did it on 5 1/4", but fewer):

	IBM, Seagate, Maxtor, Conner

I'm pretty sure that Quantum and HP do also, but I'm not sure.
That's a pretty high percentage of drives shipped.  I'ver forgotten
what the Japanese vendors (Hitachi, Fujitsu, Toshiba) are doing these
days.

| Right. The only thing that is done in powers of two are things directly
| related to computers, such as memory and disk. 

Not many disks any more.  Mind you, I agree the change is confusing,
and I didn't like it initially either, but I've adapted.  You don't
have to like it, but you had better get used to it.
--

The most beautiful things in the world are              |   Dave Olson
those from which all excess weight has been             |   Silicon Graphics
removed.  -Henry Ford                                   |   olson@sgi.com

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