Subject: Re: zip drive problem
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/03/1996 11:18:37
> Not really.  As I remarked in a similar context when someone else was
> being bitten by "metric" disk size claims from a disk maker, what they
> need is for someone to slap them with a misleading-advertising suit.

So, you're going to stand up in front of 12 people chosen from the population
at large and inform them that "million" means 1,048,576 instead of 1,000,000?

Just be glad that disk manufacturers don't report capacity in octal...