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I obsess over these pedantic differences too and I'm <30 so don't feel too bad. repeatedly pitches 3.5" floppies onto your lawn NERD SHAME EDIT: It's been a wh
by Arnor 13y ago
I obsess over these pedantic differences too and I'm <30 so don't feel too bad. repeatedly pitches 3.5" floppies onto your lawn
NERD SHAME EDIT: It's been a while... 3.5"
- derekp7 13y agoWhat must really drive you nuts about your 3.5" floppies are the fact that they are not 1.44 MB, or 1.44 MiB, or anything else that resembles 1.44 x some factor. They are actualy 1000 x 1024 x 1440 bytes (so 1440 KiB). The 1.44 on them is derived from a mixture of SI and Binary units.
- Arnor 13y agoI was fortunate enough to stop using them long before it bothered me, but now it does!
- mortehu 13y ago> 1000 x 1024 x 1440 I think you accidentally included a "1000 x".
- derekp7 13y agoYep, looks like I did. I'm having a hard time remembering memory and disk sizes so small. Actually, I think I meant for the 1440 to 1.44, so it is 1.44 x 1000 x 1024 (showing mixing the base-10 and base-2 units). So a MB in the 1.44 MB floppy is 1024 x 1000. Or, to put it another way, to get the number 1.44 out of 1474560 bytes, you first divide 1474560 by 1024, then by 1000. Weird.
- wmf 13y ago3.25"... is that a Russian format?
- jacquesm 13y agoIt's not exactly the most common but it exists and no, it's not Russian: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/325_inch.jpg http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/325_inch.jpg