720RPM 3.5" FDDs?

..._if_ you use the SI meanings for them. "Megaphone" does not mean "one million phones", to pick a really simple example. The SI does not get to mandate how people use language. The computer world does not use the SI prefixes with the SI meanings when, to quote the Jargon File, they are "used with bytes or other things that naturally come in powers of 2". Well, except for disk makers. As far as I can tell, the only people in the computer world that use the SI meanings for those prefixes for bytes are disk makers' marketing departments, and in recent years they've taken to adding footnotes saying things which I generally gloss as "yes, we know we're being misleading, we're doing it deliberately". I thought being deliberately misleading, even if technically justifiable on some ground or other, when selling things was normally called "fraud" (or "misleading advertising" at the very least), but apparently disk makers get an exemption. I've occasionally wished I ran a RAM maker, so upon getting an order from, say, Fujitsu, for, say, 1G sticks, I could send them parts with exactly 1000000000 working bytes in them.... Hm? What's wrong with it? (Meaning a very short James Parry quote, of course.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B