Need Info on DEC 11/84 Board, M8190 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Oct 1998

...
 >> BTW, would you say 'kilobyte' is a
misnomer? THe number it
>>signifies isn't 10^3, it's 2^10. For a feeble attempt to get back on
>>topic: was kilobyte always accepted as 1024 bytes? 
...
 > What drives me crazy are the marketroids who
round-up twice
> in order to inflate the capacity of hard drives.  
...
  What annoys me is the 1.44Mbyte floppy disk. The only
way to get that 
 capacitiy is to define 1Mbyte = 1000*1024 Bytes. Ugh! 
...
  The famous 65K memory chips/boards of years gone by
grated on me as well 
 (they were, of course 64K boards with 65536 locations). 
Just remember the Ataris: 64XL, 130XL, ST260, ST520, ST1040 :))


Gruss
H.

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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK