Ex-thread "Re: 720RPM 3.5" FDDs?"

[Christian Corti]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
> Fred Cisin wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>> Oh, heck, I recall the differences in the 1960's.  One manufacturer
>>> would talk about a 65K or 131K memory and another would talk about a
>>> 64K or 128K.  I don't believe that, when it comes to numerable items,
>>> such as the number of words a memory device has (as opposed to a unit
>>> of measurement) there has ever been any universal agreement.
>> 
>> "The competition only has 64K, but we have 65.536 K!
>> They only have 128K, but we have 131 K!"
>> Haven't heard THAT crap for almost 25 years.
>> 
>> (other than
>> "they only have 10.16 megabytes, but we have 10.653696 megabytes!")
>> 
> But looking back ( binary ) computers all came with 4096 words or 8192 words
> standard for the most part. Also a few uS for access too!. Ben.
>

Hello?
Is that discussion in any form related to the subject? No? Then please 
choose a new subject! I hate thread hijacking.

Christian