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Re: floppy capacity question

In article <4s3voa$23@agate.xara.net> rtk@scotborders.co.uk writes:
>In article <4s199s$ffa@news.pacifier.com>, jimbell@pacifier.com (jimbell) says:
>>
>>Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com> wrote:
>
>>>16-sector tracks and upped it to 140K.
>
>God, now I'm getting really pedandtic. 143K!

Actually, you're both right.

It depends on how you define "K".  If you use the normal metric-system
definition (where k=1000), it's 143K.  If you use the computer-geek
definition (where K=1024), it's 140K.

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