In
<CAJTOO5_2H1Dry+BuY_uVY4k2ian4xHHFzk4zrE1uARx6GuMM=a...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/23/2014
at 12:03 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:
>3.5 in Floppy disks were 1440 sectors of 512 for 720KiB then 2880
>sectors for 1440KiB or 1.40MiB but labeled them as 1.44M.
512*2880 is 1474560 bytes. 1474560/1024/1024 is 1.25. 1474560/1024000
is 1.44.
1.40MiB would be 1468006.40B.
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