FOR THE RECORD.
Sunday's brief article on Chatsworth-based Micropolis A manufacturer of disk drives that was known for its high-quality products. Founded in 1976 and based in Chatsworth, CA, it produced its first floppy drive in 1977 and its first hard drive in 1981. Acquired by Singapore Technologies in 1996, Micropolis closed its doors in 1997. Ltd. incorrectly in·cor·rect
adj.
1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong: an incorrect answer.
2. Defective; faulty: incorrect programming of the computer.
3. reported the size of the company's new hard drive. In fact, Micropolis has released a 20 gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time.
(unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes.
Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons).
See prefix. hard drive.
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