But I wil
lagree that '1.2M' is common usage, and pretty unambiguous.
Similarly 1.44M for the 500kbps MFM data rate 3.5" drive (I do object to
a 'megabyte' being 10^3*2^10 bytes, but it's common usage...)
"common MIS-usage"
I over-react to that particular idiocy. For me, that is worse than DB9 or
56K-baud.
Perhaps we should just accept that '1.2M' and '1.44M' are names for such
drives without tryign to decode them any further. Yes, there may be
idiotic reasons for such names, but can we ignoe thaose?
I have n problesm with 56Kbuard if used to describe a serial interface
running at that bit rate. I dop have a rpblem with it beiing used for the
line-side interface of cetain telephoen modems :-)
-tony