1Tb drive = 931Gb of space?

Bikertov

davester wrote: »

haha its decended into a nit picking session. Happy New Year.

And a Happy New Decade to you all too !
:beer::beer::beer:

basmic

Basically, the harddrive is probably around 1,000,000,000,000 bytes in size, which translates to:
- 976,562,500 Kilobytes
- 953,674.32 Megabytes
- 931.32 Gigabytes

For each step, you just divide by 1024. As said earlier, computer work with a different way of counting from us. 1 kilo to us is 1000, 1 kilo to a computer is 1024.

spud17

Bikertov wrote: »

And a Happy New Decade to you all too !
:beer::beer::beer:

In nit picking mode, there was never a year 0, so this is not a new decade.

If you're old enough you'll remember the arguments with year 2000.

Sparhawke

I get symbols, words & numbers mixed up on occasion in a sort of hexadecimal melange, you should see my ownage math skills where 2+2 never equals 4 or even the same number from one day to the next

Those that do know me though generally have an idea what I am talking about and simply reword it better

Plus if I do not know an answer I will generally go out of my way to find some other source and link to it, so I don't break their new toy lol

davester

The rate memory requirement have gone up its easy to make a TB GB MB kb mistakes.
I remember thinking 1 MB of Ram was a lot and feeling quite smug with my Amiga 500+ and a whole 7.14MHz processor.

Sparhawke

I still remember my trusty spectrum 48k that could count from 1 to 10 in an amazing 0.25 seconds!! :eek:

ciderboy2009

Sparhawke wrote: »

I still remember my trusty spectrum 48k that could count from 1 to 10 in an amazing 0.25 seconds!! :eek:

Nah - the best was the ZX81 - 1Kb ram as standard with an optional 16Kb ram pack :rotfl:

BillScarab

When I started work back in 1984 the mainframe I worked on had 16 MB RAM. That was used to run a database and an ordering system with about 200 users. It also ran all the accounts and payroll processing.

My current phone has 20MB of memory built in!

aliEnRIK

I started computering on an 'oric atmos' (Proper computer )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Oric_Atmos_01.jpg

But they hit me big time when I first played 'elite' on my grandfathers BBC B. Man, that takes me back ~

BillScarab

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I started computering on an 'oric atmos' (Proper computer )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Oric_Atmos_01.jpg

But they hit me big time when I first played 'elite' on my grandfathers BBC B. Man, that takes me back ~

That's one of my all time favourite games and the reason I bought an Electron instead of a Spectrum or C64.

Have you tried oolite?

http://www.oolite.org/