22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
6:13 a.m.
In a message dated 1/22/99 3:03:37 PM EST, dastar(a)ncal.verio.com writes in
repsonse to chuck mcmannis:
well, you better believe that induhviduals can and do escalate up to corporate
about things like this that they cannot or will not understand. hey, a little
humour always helps the rank novice to get a clue.
david
I bought an
IBM Deskstar hard disk that was rated at 810 Megabytes and it
had a note inserted into the packaging that had, IIRC, this to say about
it:
Dear Customer,
The disk you have purchased holds 810,549,248 bytes when it
is formatted. Some programs will use the value of 1,048,576 bytes
as the size of a megabyte and will show this disk as having only
773 "megabytes" of storage, other programs will use 1,024,000 bytes
as the size of a megabyte and show the disk as having 791 or 792
megabytes. We don't understand it either, sorry for the confusion.
IBM Support
I can hardly believe IBM would put that last sentence in any of their
literature. Some jocular IBMers must've slipped that thru when the
corporate exec wasn't looking.