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From: paul@paul.Solbourne.COM (Paul Orland)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: New 320Meg SCSI drive, 16ms, $950 (quantity purchase)
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Date: 27 Jul 90 13:40:23 GMT
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In article <45806@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:

>Most ppl tend to forget, that 1 MB = 1024^2 bytes and neither
>1000*1024 (which would be 1000 KB) nor 1000^2 bytes. In computers
>there is not the metric system used where m and mega stand for 1000^2.
>Note also, that in the metric system the letters are lower case where
>as the K in KB and the M in MB are upper case...

As discussed in this forum previously, this is *not* true with disk drives.
1 Megabyte of disk space = 1,000,000 bytes (10^6), not 1024^2.

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