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
