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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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