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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: New 320Meg SCSI drive, 16ms, $950 (quantity purchase)
Keywords: CDC-Imprimis Wren IV
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Date: 25 Jul 90 20:36:32 GMT
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In article <5429@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ericz@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Eric Zamost) writes:
>CDC-Imprimis Wren IV
>Part #94171-307 (same as 94171-350, now being sold by Seagate as ST4350N)
>320 Meg formatted capacity

I doubt that CDC uses 2 different article numbers to describe one
article.
Thus it is obvious that 94171-307 and 94171-350 are not the same. 
If CDC uses the same numbering scheme as in the Wren V, VI and VII
series, as I think, the number after the dash shows the unformatted
capacity, i.e. in this case 307 MB. So the drive can hardly have 320
formatted capacity.
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...
Nevertheless this could be a good deal... I just hate it if ppl look
at the first few digits of a "n bytes free"-message and call it
formatted capacity in MB

Ronald from Europe and with typos...
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