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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: super high density formatters
Message-ID: <991@demott.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:52:37 GMT
References: <1990Nov18.020651.13744@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <1990Nov18.020651.13744@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>	If you look closer (at least on some of the disks) it says "2.0
>Megabytes *UNFORMATTED* Capacity".  Now, I may be stupid, but what the heck
>good is it to be this way, you can't use it until it's been formatted!!
>I've always wondered about this....


    Well, since there are "tricky" ways of putting more data on the disk
than "standard", what number should they list? 1.44MB because that's
standard, or 1.8MB because that's what you can get if you're lucky? The
point is that by saying 2MB unformatted, you can compare it to other
media of a similar type. 

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