On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 21:35, Bill Jonas wrote:

> There are fine-print explanations of this -- and in more
> marketing-friendly terms -- on the boxes the drives came in.  They might
> say that 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, or that the 250 GB they claim is
> "unformatted capacity".
----
kind of like a 17" monitor which they now have to state things like
15.9" viewable after many vendors were clobbered by class action
lawsuits.

I guess the main thing that struck me here is I remember when I first
purchased a floppy disk drive for my Apple II and thought that 140K
provided an incredible amount of storage space and when I bought my
first 10Mb hard drive, I thought I died and went to heaven.

Craig

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