Message Forum: Re: Quake vs. Y2K

Re: Quake vs. Y2K

Posted By: Fawcett, on host 216.111.134.13
Date: Monday, November 1, 1999, at 21:30:09
In Reply To: Re: Quake vs. Y2K posted by Dave on Monday, October 26, 1998, at 07:39:41:

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> > (Note the small 'k', by the way. 2K is 2048.)
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> Heh heh. Geek.
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> BTW, if you work for Maxtor, 2K really is 2000. Just another reason to never buy Maxtor drives--they gyp you bad on the size.

Has anyone seen Cringley's Y2K show? I thought it was funny that he said that 1K is 1024 *bits*. Not bytes?

Faw"Yes, I'm responding to *another* more-than-year-old thread"cett