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Article #3507Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Farul Ghazali
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 03:53
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 03:53
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In article <2ocm2t$knb@news.u.washington.edu>, Richard Seymour <seymour@u.washington.edu> wrote: >In article <Co0L49.1IM@cnsnews.colorado.edu>, >Neil Collins <collinsn@spot.Colorado.EDU> wrote: > >>> What *REALLY* is atrocious is tape drives that advertise 250MB when in >>> reality is 150 w/compression. >> Yes! Just wait until disk drive manufacturers adopt this method for >>advertising... :-) > >they already have... just yesterday i read an ad that said (in LARGE print): > > 150/300* Mbyte disk drive $179. > > in far tinier print: * when using compression under MS-DOS 6.0 At least that one had something that indicated that it was with compression. I just bought a tape drive advertised to store 250 megs, believing that I could get 400 megs or so after compression. It turned out that 250 = 150+compression. Thank god they had a money back guarantee. :( -- Farul Ghazali School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University in the City of New York.
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