On (07 Apr 94) Roy McNeill wrote to Paul edwards...



 PE> ....... Now I have replaced my Maxtor 200 meg with a Conner 407 meg

 PE> (said 420 on the case!), and now I'm back on the air. It is a

 PE> Conner CFS420A. I don't know how fast it is. 



 RM> New fangled descriptions they have for these drives to sell them

 RM> better. In the old days, (before you were born?) 407 megs meant

 RM> 407*1024*1024, ie 426,770,432 bytes. Not any more, it seems. Now a

 RM> meg means 1E6 in decimal. Sad. It's caught me too.



manufacturers almost always specify UNformatted capacity. pretty

irrelevent to ide, but it does look better.



                 Keith



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