Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

[Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de>]

Supertimer wrote:

> >> 286k to be exact.
> >
> >Only if you define a "k" to be 1002.517482... bytes, which
> >is a pretty strange definition if you ask me. 256 bytes times
> >16 sectors times 35 tracks equals 140 kilobytes, exactly.

> "A single Diskware disk holds 143,360 (formatted) bytes
> of information."

143360 bytes ARE exactly 140kBytes. 140x1024. 
The 'kilo' in 'kilobyte' is not metric, it means 2E10=1024 instead of
1E3=1000. A megabyte equals 1024x1024=1048576 bytes.


Patrick