"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 22/10/2019 20:25, Jane Black wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 22/10/2019 12:11, alan_m wrote:
On 22/10/2019 11:02, Max Demian wrote:

Megapixels (and megabytes) are less than they used to be. 1,000,000
rather than 1,048,576.

Hard disks have always have always been 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes

I dont think so

You are correct with the PC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST506/ST412

...has no relevance to this duscussion...

Of course it does, its the first hard disk seen on the PC.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/seagate/ST5...nual_Apr81.pdf

..implies the opposite...

No it does not. The lines specifying the formatted capacity
are clearly using 1,048,576. byte megabytes.