27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
12:54 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
[1] Anyone know who it was, anyway? I first saw it in
the hard disk industry
somewhere around 1997 or so, purely as a marketing tool to make one
manufacturer's drives look bigger than their competitors.
Late 1970's, early 1980's. Or BEFORE.
There were a few marketing types bragging that their microcomputers had
65.536K of memory (v the competition at only 64K?)