9 May
2003
9 May
'03
2:56 p.m.
The format that IBM used was 512 bytes per sector,
with 15 sectors per
track. That gave a capacity of 1228800 bytes, or 1.121875 "honest"
megabytes (where a K is 1024 and a M is 1024 K (1048576)), or 1.228
Million bytes, or 1.2 IBM SLEAZY BOGUS "mega"bytes (where a
"megabyte" is
creatively redefined to be 1000*1024). But the format was largely a
CORRECTION: that should have read '1.171875 "honest" megabytes'
There are a dozen other errors, but that one needed to be fixed.