Hard Disk sizes (was: New Member needs mass storage)

[Steve Rodrigues <steverod@CS.Berkeley.EDU>]

Boris wrote:
> > >I recently got a ThinkPad 701C with 8 MB RAM and a 720 Million Byte
> > >(what a scam) Hard Drive.  Least to say I though I got a good deal

...> 
> Well, I meant the million byte MB versus Megabyte is a scam, on IBMs
> part...

This is a general scam on the part of disk manufacturers; IBM is merely 
following everyone else's lead. My 420MB drive magically became 405, my
1.6GB is 1525 MB, or about 1.49GB in reality. This is the Way Things 
Are Done, like it or not.

While IBM is not clean in the matter, they're not trying to pull any more of
a fast one than any one else.

(Now, historically, this may be IBM's fault, but that's not what I saw you
commenting on.)

Steve
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