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From: phil@sivax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: HFS Backup-RESTORE Review, and Apple HD20 \"Missing Space\"...
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 14:06:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 14:06:27 1986
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> Let us not forget a key point.  In the interest of advertising
> and marketing, most HD manufacturers give the size of the disk before
> formatting.  Depending on how big you make the sectors and other things
> your effective usage of that space will various quite a bit.  They
> also tend to round the size out to round numbers.
> 
> By the way, my 40 Meg Hard Disk actually has an extra 128K over
> 40 Meg of space on it.  Sometime you just get lucky I guess.
> -- 
My 20 meg Micah Drive has 22.4 meg formatted on it.  Sometimes you get
REALLY lucky!!!!!


Phil Hunt
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