5" floppy?.

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Tony Duell wrote:
>> Even computer companies - people that should know better, make 
>> mistakes when talking about floppy disks. Last week I was in a Staples 
>> store (American office supply store chain), and saw a Memorex 3 1/2" USB 
>> floppy drive, the package stating clearly that it supported "1.44mb 
>> double sided and 720k single sided diskettes". > 
> 
> Well, calling it mb (millibyte) is clearly wrong. And the value of 
> 1.44Mbytes assumes you take 1Mbyte as 1000*1024 bytes, which is downright 
> crazy.

Actually, doesn't mb imply "millibit", and mB is "millibyte", with Mb as 
"megabit" and MB as "megabyte"?

Peace...  Sridhar