5.25 in Floppy disks were 320KiB then 1.2MiB 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.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 10/22/2014 > at 11:00 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> said: > >>This is perhaps the strangest marketing decision ever made by the >>industry. > > Stranger than units of 1024000? > >>most system limits are in powers of two, > > It would help if you would start using SI binary units for those. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
