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Sorry, nitpick: 720kB DD 1.44MB HD

• KellyCriterion 8mo ago
  ++1 :))
• LeoPanthera 8mo ago
  It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB. "1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.
  • chungy 8mo ago
    With the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB" Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.
  • fuzzfactor 8mo ago
    Probably because they have 2880 sectors.