6 Dec
2014
6 Dec
'14
3:35 p.m.
On 12/06/2014 02:36 PM, Mouse wrote:
And at least one manufacturer outright lied to me about it. Back when
Zip disks came out, they were sold as 100MB. They were actually 96MB
(bang on the nose, too - 196608 sectors, not 96.026+MB or any such). I
had occasion to call iOmega for something else related to Zip disks and
asked them where the other 4MB went, not because I didn't know but
because I was curious what they'd say.
I dunno--if you go by the 1MB = 10**6 bytes, it's pretty accurate for
both the 100 (100663296 bytes) and the 250 (250640384 bytes).
Reminds me of the old Python sketch about "Anything Goes"...
--Chuck