24 Jan
2018
24 Jan
'18
10:43 a.m.
On 01/24/2018 09:45 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
BTW, it is 2.8M.? It is NEVER 2.88M unless you
REDEFINE "Megabyte" to be
1,024,000 bytes.? What moron does THAT?? (not the 1,000,000 used by
marketing, nor the 1,048,576 used in computers (AKA MebiByte))
Well, 2.95MB or 2.81MiB.
That's why I don't use the "B" when I talk about these things. The
unit
used for 1.44M or 2.88M is a work of creative fiction.
But if you talk about "unformatted" capacity, which is perhaps a better
descriptive term for the medium and drive, nobody knows what you're
talking about.
We all make certain concessions. So, a "360K" disk can easily hold 400K
and a 720K is twice the capacity of a 360K. Obviously a 14400K must be
1.44M...and so on...
Used to be that numbers meant something.
--Chuck