Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20141205)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/06/2014 11:26 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:

Finger-brain disconnect:  Should be:

> Now, if we extend this to the "1.2MB" disk with 15 sectors of 512 bytes
> per track, we run into a problem.  Counting only one side, we have
> 15*512*80 = 600 * 1024 bytes.  Making this double-sided is 1,200 * 1024,
> which was 1.2 * 1,000 * 1024--a mongrel.  I prefer to call this
> 1200K--and it's 3.5" cousing 1440K--and indeed some Microsoft utilities
> access this--but the world is what it is.