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From: john@hpcvlo.HP.COM (John Eaton)
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Subject: Re: random notes taken at IBM announcement
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 18:14:04 EST
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Another thing that IBM has given us in this announcement is a new way to use 
the letter "M". A 1.44 MB drive is actually twice the size of a 720 Kbyte
which means it is 1440 Kbytes. This means that M now refers to the unusual
multiplier of 1000*1024. Talk about mixed unit of measure. 


John Eaton
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