Subject: Re: zip drive problem
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/1996 06:38:24
>>> [iomega calls zip disks 100MB; NetBSD] says they're 96MB. As far
>>> as I can tell, NetBSD is telling the truth here and iomega is
>>> lying.
>> Not lying, exactly, *marketing*.
> Is there a difference? :-)
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.
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu