In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/31/2007
at 12:30 PM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>No. There was no such convention.
Wrong. Tape capacity was measured in units of 1,000 in the 1950's, the
1960's, the 1970's and beyond, across vendors
>I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB.
Never used a floppy?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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