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echo: locsysop
to: Paul edwards
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1994-04-07 23:14:24
subject: drive size

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

 PE> Conner 407 meg (said 420 on the case!), and now I'm back on

 PE> the air.  It is a Conner CFS420A.  I don't know how fast it

 PE> is. 



    New fangled descriptions they have for these drives to sell

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

meant 407*1024*1024, ie 426,770,432 bytes. Not any more, it seems.

Now a

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



cheers



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